Keith Barker is a

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playwright and theatre director."Talking Stick Festival's The Hours That Remain remembers the forgotten"
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'', February 9, 2014. The current artistic director of the

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theatre company, he is most noted for his plays ''The Hours That Remain'', an exploration of

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, and ''This Is How We Got Here'', a play about youth suicide which was a shortlisted finalist for the

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at the

2018 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018,"The finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for drama"

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, October 3, 2018. A member of the

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Nation of Ontario, he grew up in

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, Barker is a graduate of the theatre program at

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