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Ins Choi
Ins Choi
In this year, Ins Choi debuted his show Kim's Convenience.
Answer: 2011
Name two of Ins Choi’s later plays and theatre works.
Answer: Son of a Preacherman (2025), Bad Parent (2022), Kim's Convenience Revival Tour (2023–2026), Subway Stations of the Cross (2015), or Poetry Book of “Son of a Preacherman” (2026).
In 2018, Kim's Convenience won this top Canadian television award for Best Comedy Series.
Answer: Canadian Screen Award
This festival is where the play premiered.
Answer: the Toronto Fringe Festival
This national broadcaster premiered Kim's Convenience on October 11, 2016.
Answer: CBC
This shop was the inspiration for Kim's Convenience and was present in Ins Choi's early life.
Answer: his uncle's store called "Kim's Grocer"
Name one of the locations where Ins Choi performed the Revival Tour.
Answer: UK (Park Theatre, London), Toronto (Soulpepper), San Diego (Old Globe), or Boston (The Huntington)
In 2019, the show won the "Most Popular Foreign Drama" award at a festival in this Asian capital city.
Answer: Seoul (Korea)
The play moved to this theatre for its full run.
Answer: the Soulpepper Theatre
Ins Choi developed the TV adaptation of Kim's Convenience alongside this person.
Answer: Kevin White
Ins Choi originally pursued this career because of his father's influence.
Answer: a pastor/religious career
Subway Stations of the Cross delivered this amount of poems and songs.
Answer: 14 poems and songs
This actor won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor a record-breaking five times.
Answer: Andrew Phung
This award was won by Kim's Convenience for being the “Outstanding New Play”.
Answer: the Dora More Award
When Ins Choi and Kevin White departed after Season 5 of the show, the producers canceled the show for one major reason.
Answer: a lack of representation (no other Korean writers/creative voices behind the scenes)