Keith Barker

Keith Barker is a Métis artist from Northwestern Ontario and the former Artistic Director at Native Earth Performing Arts. Currently, he is the Director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program at the Stratford Festival. In 2023, Keith was a recipient of the Johanna Metcalf Prize, and recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in 2021. In 2020 he received a Dora Mavor Award for Outstanding New Play, and the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Carol Bolt Award. Keith was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama in 2018 for his play, This Is How We Got Here. He received a Saskatchewan and Area Theatre Award for Achievement in Playwriting for his play, The Hours That Remain, as well as a Yukon Arts Award for Best Art for Social Change.