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Adam Blanshay Productions and Park Theatre present the European Premiere of
Kim's Convenience
WRITER | INS CHOI
DIRECTOR I ESTHER JUN
DESIGNER | MONA CAMILLE
LIGHTING DESIGNER | JONATHAN CHAN
SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER I ADRIENNE QUARTLY
FIGHT DIRECTOR | PHILIP D’ORLÉANS
PRODUCTION MANAGER | IAN TAYLOR FOR ESTAGE
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER | LEWIS CHAMPNEY FOR ESTAGE
PRODUCERS | ADAM BLANSHAY & AMELIA CHERRY
ASSISTANT PRODUCERS | ELLEN HARRIS & GIORGIO SPIEGELFELD
COMPANY STAGE MANAGER I REUBEN BOJANG
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER I JINWEN CHEN
COSTUME SUPERVISOR | BETH QUALTER BUNCALL
PROPS SUPERVISOR | SHUPIN LIU
DIALECT COACH | REBECCA CLARK CAREY
GRAFFITI ARTIST | EMILY MAY ROSE
PR | DIANA WHITEHEAD FOR FOURTH WALL PR
Ins Choi
Ins Choi was born in Korea but grew up and currently lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and two children. Some of his theatre acting 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 Saleman (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 has also written a solo show called Subway Stations of the Cross, Songs Stories and Spoken Words and was part of the collective that created Alligator Pie, re(birth): ee cummings in song, Window on Toronto (Soulpepper); 2000 Candles (Brookstone).
His new play, Bad Parent, was recently produced in a rolling world premiere by Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre PTE in Winnipeg, the Cultch in Vancouver, and at Soulpepper in Toronto. He’s also developing various tv and film projects.
Esther Jun
Esther Jun is a Toronto based director and the Artistic Associate in Planning and the Director of The Langham Directors Workshop at The Stratford Festival of Canada. She has worked with companies across Canada including The Shaw Festival, Cahoots, Nightwood,Theatre and Soulpepper.Theatre She is a founding member of Directors Lab North, the first international offshoot of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab in 2010. She was Assistant Artistic Director at Tarragon Theatre from 2016-2018, where she directed the Canadian premiere of Evan Placey’s Girls Like That and premiered Theory by Norman Yeung. Most recently Esther directed Les Belles-Soeurs by Michel Trembley, I Am William by Rébecca Déraspe and a new adaptation of Little Women by Jordi Mand at Stratford. (www.theestherjun.com)
Mona Camille
Mona Camille is a designer for theatre, film and dance with a background in architecture. Mona's recent designs include Milk & Gall at Theatre503, Promised Land at the Bloomsbury Festival, Camaleonte by Studio Goodluck Productions, harmony. 天人合一 at the Blue Elephant Theatre, The Tree of Objects at Jacksons Lane Theatre. Mona's credits as an associate include A View From The Bridge (Headlong Theatre) at the Octagon Bolton, Chichester Festival Theatre and Rose Theatre, Henry V at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Worth (New Earth Theatre) at the Arcola Theatre and Storyhouse Theatre, and Raya at the Hampstead Theatre. Mona Camille is also a multidisciplinary artist with artworks exhibited at the Seychelles Biennale of Contemporary Art 2022 and the Seychelles National Museum for the 2022 Festival Kreol.
Jonathan Chan
Jonathan trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His credits include: Ignition (Frantic Assembly), The Flea (Yard), Candy (Park), Love Bomb (NYT), Duck (Arcola), Grindr: The Opera (Union), Snowflakes (Park & Old Red Lion), In the Net (Jermyn Street), Grandad Me and Teddy Too (Polka), The Solid Life of Sugar Water (Orange Tree), Lady Dealer (Paines Plough Roundabout), An Interrogation (Summerhall), Move Fast and Break Things (Camden People’s & Summerhall), Pussycat In Memory of Darkness, The Straw Chair (Finborough), Maybe Probably, Belvedere (Old Red Lion), Different Owners at Sunrise (The Roundhouse) Fidelio (Glyndebourne - Assistant Lighting Designer) and The Passenger R&D (Guildhall - Associate Lighting Designer).
Adrienne Quartly
Credits include: Get Happy (Barbican); The Price (Gate Dublin); The Tempest (RSC); The Nutcracker (Bristol Old Vic); Gunpowder Immersive (Tower of London); Bad Jews (Arts, West End); Footfalls & Rockaby (Jermyn Theatre); Napoleon (Told By An Idiot); Red (Polka Theatre); The Girl Who Fell (Trafalgar Studios); Black Men Walking (Eclipse Theatre); Citysong (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); The Paper Man, Opening Skinners Box (Improbable); Rose, Queen Margaret (Royal Exchange Manchester); Cuttin It (Young Vic/Royal Court); Splendour (Donmar Warehouse).
Audio/Albums include: Mansfield Park for Audible, A Tale of Two Cities (Incidental; music for the stage); Artists Rifles (Piano Magic).
Film credits include: Lost Tango and 7 Deadly Idiots.
Philip d’Orléans
Philip is a member of the Equity Register of Fight Directors, and of the teaching and examining staff of the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. He has worked throughout Europe and America, alongside his regular teaching commitments for RADA, Drama Studio London and other drama schools and universities.
Theatre credits include: Measure For Measure and Hamlet (The Globe); The Kite Runner (Broadway, USA); Ravenscourt (Hampstead Theatre); Shakespeare In Love (Norwegian National Theatre); The Prince and the Pauper, Richard III, Henry VI, Bartholomew Fair (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); For Services Rendered, Stitchers (Jermyn Street Theatre); Botticelli In The Fire (Hampstead Theatre); Brassed Off (Northern Broadsides); Richard III (The Rose Theatre); Blenheim, Twelfth Night, Merry Wives Of Windsor, Romeo & Juliet (Guildford Shakespeare Company); Henry V (The Rose Theatre York); Agreed (Glyndebourne Opera); Merry Wives Of Windsor, King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe); Andrea Chenier (Royal Opera House); Simon Boccanegran (Greek National Opera); Romeo Et Juliette (Korea National Opera); Titus Andronicus (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Outsider (The Print Room), Brighton Rock (Theatre Royal York).
Recently for the stage, The Nutcracker for the New Vic Theatre Stoke On Trent. Philip’s screen work includes films for Warner Bros and Universal Pictures and documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. Recently on television he was Sword Master for Lockwood & Co.
Beth Qualter Buncall
A freelance costume supervisor, stylist, textiles creative and draper, and fashion pattern cutter. With a raft of practical experience and innate skill, she intuitively understands the construction of products and can skillfully deconstruct and reconstruct items to create something both beautiful and practical for stage use. Beth works from her offgrid floating studio on the London canals to create commissioned products such as made-to-measure garments, drapes and textile products.
Emily May Rose
Emily May Rose is an award-winning artist and illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. Based on her own experiences, Emily’s work features a cast of recurring characters (most notably her weed-smoking, pizza-eating raccoons) to depict humorous situations that are relatable to many of us who are trying to survive in an urban environment. Her work can be found in many formats including murals, editorial illustration, apparel design, installations, and gallery settings. Her murals can be found all over the world where she's painted in street art festivals, artist residencies, and other commissions during her various travels.