Keith Barker is a Métis artist from Northwestern Ontario and the former artistic director at Native Earth Performing Arts. Currently he is 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 in 2020 he received a Dora Mavor Moore 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 This Is How We Got Here. He received a Saskatchewan and Area Theatre Award for Achievement in Playwriting for The Hours That Remain, as well as a Yukon Arts Award for Best Art for Social Change. Keith returned to the stage in 2023, playing Louis Riel in Frances Koncan's Women of the Fur Trade for the Stratford Festival. Other acting credits include Richard Hannay in Bruce County Playhouse's The 39 Steps, Cornwall in the National Arts Centre's production of King Lear, Roger Hughes in Seeds, and Bernard Smoke in Fury at the Blyth Festival. In 2025 Keith will be directing The Art of War by Yvette Nolan for the Stratford Festival.