Keith Barker is a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario. He is a playwright, actor, and director from Northwestern Ontario, and the current artistic director at Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Carol Bolt Award for best new play, Keith was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for English Drama in 2018 for his play This Is How We Got Here. He received a Saskatchewan and Area Theatre Award for Excellence in Playwriting for his play The Hours That Remain as well as a Yukon Arts Award for Best Art for Social Change. His audio play, Every Minute of Every Day,will premiere as part of Factory Theatre’s You Can’t Get There From Here podcast play series in March 2021.

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Ottawa writer Sanita Fejzić has published two of chapbooks of poetry, and numerous short stories and poems in Canada and the U.S. She is the co-editor of In/Words Magazine & Press, a micro-press and small magazine run out of Carleton University where she is completing her Master’s degree in English Literature. Her research examines the political, cultural and materialist effects of the novella in North America.

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Hailed as an “incredible artist” by Hans Zimmer, Suad Bushnaq is an internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning Jordanian Canadian music composer of Bosnian, Palestinian, and Syrian roots. Her work has garnered a CASMA (Canadian Screen Music Award), a Hollywood Music in Media Award, and four CSA (Canadian Screen Award) nominations, to name a few. She is the 2021 recipient of the Kathleen McMorrow Music Award from the Ontario Arts Foundation. Her most recent work includes the three-part series Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough, for which she won a Canadian Screen Music Award and was nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award.

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