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Keith Barker is a Canadian playwright and theatre director. The former artistic director of the Native Earth Performing Arts theatre company, he is most noted for his plays The Hours That Remain, an exploration of missing and murdered Indigenous women, and This Is How We Got Here, a play about youth suicide which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.

Keith is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, he grew up in Northwestern Ontario, Barker is a graduate of the theatre program at George Brown College.

References

1. ^ "Talking Stick Festival's The Hours That Remain remembers the forgotten". The Georgia Straight, February 9, 2014.
2. "Talk Diversity in Canadian Theatre". Torontoist, April 9, 2017.
3. "Playwright Keith Barker to lead new play development in Stratford". stratfordbeaconherald. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
4. "Play examines plight of indigenous women". Kingston Whig-Standard, March 9, 2016.
5. "The finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for drama". CBC Books, October 3, 2018.
6. "Home". Ontario Métis Facts. Retrieved 2024-06-13.

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