Keith Barker (Métis) is an actor, playwright, director, and dramaturg from Northwestern Ontario. He is the director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program at the Stratford Festival, and the former artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts. Before that, Keith served as a theatre program officer for the Canada Council for the Arts. Keith is the recipient of the Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and the Playwrights Guild of Canada's Carol Bolt Award.
He was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama in 2018 for his play This Is How We Got Here. Keith received the Saskatchewan and Area Theatre Award for Achievement in Playwriting for The Hours That Remain and a Yukon Arts Award for Best Art for Social Change.
He was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama in 2018 for his play This Is How We Got Here. Keith received the Saskatchewan and Area Theatre Award for Achievement in Playwriting for The Hours That Remain and a Yukon Arts Award for Best Art for Social Change.







