# Ins Choi

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Ins Choi: The Kim’s Convenience creator on his unlikely life in the arts

The Canadian actor and playwright Ins Choi is best known as the creator of “Kim’s Convenience,” which started as a play in 2011 before it became a hit sitcom in 2016. This month, “Kim’s Convenience” is back at Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre Company where it was first professionally staged in 2012. In…

Book Rec: Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi

This episode is a book recommendation for “Kim’s Convenience,” a play by Ins Choi.

Kim's Convenience - Part 1

This episode is a book recommendation for “Kim’s Convenience,” a play by Ins Choi.

Kim's Convenience - Part 2

This episode is a book analysis of “Kim’s Convenience,” a play by Ins Choi.

November 18, 2025 - Ins Choi on "Kim's Convenience," Dread Scott, and Pedro Alonzo

Playwright Ins Choi joins us to discuss Kim’s Convenience, his hit play now onstage at the Huntington Theatre Company (November 6–30, 2025). Drawing on his Korean-Canadian upbringing, the story follows a family running a corner store and the cultural and generational tensions that shape their lives…

Ins Choi on Kim's Convenience, creating his own opportunities, and everything in between

Ins Choi was born in Korea but grew up and currently lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children. 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 …

Kim’s Convenience (Part Two)

The Kim family is forced to face some uncomfortable realities. Appa confronts retirement after decades running the convenience store, while his daughter Janet refuses to follow his plans for her future. At church, Umma makes an unexpected connection that changes things for the family. When Janet's …

Kim’s Convenience (Part One)

One of the most iconic plays of its generation, Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi opens inside a Toronto corner store run by a Korean Canadian family. Later adapted into the global hit CBC and Netflix series, the play introduces Appa Kim, who rules his shop with stubborn pride, sharp opinions, and a de…

Kim’s Convenience (Interview with Ins Choi)

Playwright Ins Choi joins Laura Mullin to talk about Kim’s Convenience, the play that eventually became the hit television series. Choi shares why he started writing the play, what it was like to spend years facing rejection, and how one chance meeting transformed the story he thought he was tellin…

How one flick from Jesus led Ins Choi to his calling

Ins Choi, the creator of Kim’s Convenience, is back with a new play — and this time he’s getting even more personal. It’s called Son of a Preacherman and it’s about the Canadian playwright’s childhood as a “PK” (preacher’s kid), and how theatre and the arts took him away from becoming a man of the …