Keith Barker (writer)

Keith Barker is a Canadian playwright and theatre director.^[1] The former artistic director of the Native Earth Performing Arts theatre company,^[2][3] he is most noted for his plays The Hours That Remain, an exploration of missing and murdered Indigenous women,^[4] 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.^[5]

Keith is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, he grew up in Northwestern Ontario,^[1] Barker is a graduate of the theatre program at George Brown College.^[6]