Ins Choi

Ins Choi recently starred in Kim’s Convenience at the Riverside Studios in London.

Ins Choi is an award-winning playwright and actor. Ins scored a huge hit writing and starring in CBC and Netflix comedy Kim’s Convenience – which has now been adapted into a hit stage play.

Ins Choi was born in Korea but grew up and currently lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and two children. He is a writer and a performer.

Ins Choi’s theatre credits include Banana Boys, lady in the red dress (fu-GEN); Hamlet, The Odyssey, Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, All’s Well That Ends Well (Stratford Festival); Alligator Pie, Death of a Salesman (Soulpepper).

As a writer, his debut play, Kim’s Convenience, won the Best New Play award and the Patron’s Pick at the 2011 Toronto Fringe festival. It then launched Soulpepper theatre company’s 2012 season, toured across Canada, and was adapted into a TV series of the same name on the CBC and Netflix for 5 seasons. Ins was a writer, executive producer, and co-creator of the tv series.

He is currently working on a few projects in theatre and television.

Book tickets to Kim’s Convenience at the Riverside Studios in London

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Ins Choi Press Interviews

InterviewKim’s Convenience writer Ins Choi: ‘I want a broad audience to see Asians as normal people’ The play about the offbeat dynamics of a Korean-Canadian family became a hit Netflix sitcom and is newly revived in London (Áine Kim Kennedy , Financial Times, 9 January 2024) - Read more

Interview‘It’s in my blood to make stuff’: Ins Choi on bringing Kim’s Convenience back to the stage He couldn’t get his foot in the door as an actor, so wrote his own play based on working in his uncle’s grocery store. Thirteen years and a global sitcom hit later he’s reopening the shop (Angela Hui, The Guardian, 5 January 2024) - Read more