Keith Barker (writer)
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Canadian playwright and theatre director
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]
References
[edit ]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Playwright Keith Barker to lead new play development in Stratford". stratfordbeaconherald. Retrieved 2023年04月16日.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Home". Ontario Métis Facts. Retrieved 2024年06月13日.
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