Keith Barker (writer)
Keith Barker is a Canadian playwright and theatre director.[1] The current artistic director of the Native Earth Performing Arts theatre company,[2] he is most noted for his plays The Hours That Remain, an exploration of missing and murdered Indigenous women,[3] 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.[4]
A member 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.
References
- ^ a b "Talking Stick Festival's The Hours That Remain remembers the forgotten". The Georgia Straight, February 9, 2014.
- ^ "Talk Diversity in Canadian Theatre". Torontoist, April 9, 2017.
- ^ "Play examines plight of indigenous women". Kingston Whig-Standard, March 9, 2016.
- ^ "The finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for drama". CBC Books, October 3, 2018.
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