Kim's Convenience

Cast & Crew

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee: Actor

Paul is a Dora Award nominated actor, comedian and playwright who lives in Toronto with his wife and two boys. Selected stage credits include: Ali & Ali: The Deportation Hearings (New World/Cahoots/Factory Theatre); The Monster Under the Bed (LKTYP); The Sheep & The Whale (Modern Times/Cahoots/TPM); Dreams of Blonde and Blue (Cahoots/TPM); Godzilla (Crow’s Theatre); Mother Tongue (Cahoots); The Hobbit (YPT) and Mom, Dad, I’m Living with a White Girl (Cahoots/TPM) to name a few. Paul has also been busy pursuing his love for acting on the big and small screen as well, having appeared in the feature films: The Untitled Work of Paul Shepard; Nurse.Fighter.Boy; The Echo; P2; Ice Princess; One Way; and Harriet the Spy; and television shows such as: Almost Heroes; Warehouse 13; XIII: The Series; Alphas; Degrassi: The Next Generation; Best Laid Plans; Happy Town; Cra$h & Burn; Covert Affairs; The Dealership; The Bridge; The Dresden Files; This is Wonderland; Little Mosque on the Prairie; Mayday; The Jane Show; Billable Hours; 1-800 Missing and of course as Randy Ko on Train 48. Paul has also written a full length play called Dangling and is currently procrastinating working on his second play: Up North.

Jean Yoon: Actor

Jean Yoon is a Toronto-based actor, playwright and dramaturge working in the Toronto theatre scene for thirty years now. Stage credits include: Tout Comme Elle(Necessary Angel/Luminato), Hana’s Suitcase (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People), Blessings (Tarragon Theatre), Godzilla (Crows Theatre), Noran Bang: The Yellow Room (Cahoots Theatre Projects). Playwriting credits include the Dora nominated play The Yoko Ono Project (Loud Mouth Asian Babes/Theatre Passe Muraille), a solo version of the show, YES YOKO SOLO (Factory Theatre, Performance Arts Spring), Hongbu & Nolbu: The Tale of the Magic Pumpkins(LKTYP), and Spite (Summerworks 2000) and Sliding for Home & Borders (Toronto Fringe 1995). Jean works extensively in film and television, and is best known for her Gemini nominated performance as Belinda Lok in the acclaimed CBC mini-series Dragon Boys. Recent film and television credits include The Time Traveler’s Wife, Cancel Christmas, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Being Erica, Lost Girl and Warehouse 13. Upcoming: The Rez Sisters at Factory Theatre. Watch for her in The Wedding Palace, a Korean American indie feature film, slated for release later this year.

Esther Jun: Actor

Originally trained as an actor in NYC, and then completed her directing degree at Drama Centre London in 2006. Overseas, she directed 2 shows for the Edinburgh Fringe, Durang B4 Dinner and Red Bird with Picasso, and completed her first short film Calamity, which appeared at International Festivals. In Toronto she has worked with The Shaw Festival, Te-Amim, Obsidian, and Cahoots Theatre Companies. Most recently, she directed Sex Tape Project, a workshop with fu-Gen Theatre, she was a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2010, directed Trout Stanley, with Heart in Hand Theatre, Fear & Misery of the Third Reich, at Summerworks ’09, First Hand Woman, at the Next Stage Festival ‘09, worked on The Penelopiad with Nightwood Theatre and was associate director on Richard III at Ryerson with Ruth Madoc-Jones. Next up will be Yellow Face, at Hart House Theatre in March 2011.

Ins Choi: Playwright/Producer/Actor

Selected theatre credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Death of a Salesman, Oh What a Lovely War (Dora award nomination), The Cherry Orchard (soulpepper); Lady in the Red Dress (fu-GEN – Dora award nomination); Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew, The Odyssey (Stratford); Banana Boys (fu-GEN – Dora award nomination); The Comedy of Errors (CanStage); Hongbu and Nolbu and the Magic Pumpkins (LKTYP). Selected film/TV credits: The Terminal (Dreamworks); Street Time (Cliffwood); Playmakers (Franchise); In tha’ Mix (Alliance/Atlantis); Codename: Eternity (Warner Bros.); Earth: Final Conflict (Lost Script 11). Ins was born in Korea, grew up in Scarborough and now resides in Toronto with his lovely wife and their two kids. Upcoming: Double Bill: (re)birth: ee cummings in song, Window on Toronto (soulpepper).

Andre Sills: Actor

Andre Is pleased to be returning to the Toronto Fringe and a part of the cast of Kim’s Convinence. Other theatre credits include Window on Toronto with Soulpepper, Ruined with Obsidian Theatre, Richard III with Hart House Theatre (Best Actor Nomination Broadwayworld.com), Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with Theatre By The Bay, The Nile with the Toronto Fringe, A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream with Shakespeare In Action, The Overwhelming with Studio 180 and The Canadian Stage Company, Othello and Radio Golf with the St. Louis Black Rep, Much Ado About Nothing with The Canadian Stage Company. He has also spent four seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada and also did the Birmingham Conservatory under David Latham. Andre is a graduate of the George Brown Theatre School.

Ken Mackenzie: Designer

Ken has worked in theatres across Canada and the United States as a designer. Some of Ken’s recent design credits include video and set for Oh What a Lovely War and (re)birth: ee cummings in song at Soulpepper. Design for 3 Penny Opera at Fanshaw College, set design for Tartuffe at Boston Court Theatre and set and lights for Kiss of the Spider Woman for Talk is Free theatre. Ken is currently a member of the Soulpepper Academy and in 2006 earned his masters degree in design from California Institute of the Arts.

Kat Chin: Stage Manager

Select credits include: Stage Manager: paper SERIES (Cahoots Theatre Company), Ivona, Princess of Burgundia (George Brown Theatre), The Invisible Girl (LKTYP), Iphigenie en Tauride (Opera Atelier), lady in the red dress (fu-GEN), Iphigenia At Aulis (TIC), Prison Dancer (Summerworks Musical Works In Concert), The Making Of Saint Jerome (eastBOUNDtheatre), Greenland (TGC), The Sicilian (Nicolas Billon and Lee Wilson Presents); Assistant Stage Manager: The Endless Pace (Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2010), The Monster Under The Bed (LKTYP), Glengarry Glen Ross (Soulpepper 2009 & 2010).

Kat has stage managed at the Toronto Fringe Festival for the past nine years, the Summerworks Theatre Festival and the Next Stage Festival. She has worked at the Toronto International Film Festival since 2003, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the National Ballet of Canada, and the Sundance Film Festival. She is also the Floor Manager for the City of Toronto’s Cavalcade of Lights. Kat is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre School. Upcoming: Double Bill – (re)birth: e. e. cummings in song + window on toronto and The Aleph (Soulpepper); Don Giovanni (Opera Atelier).

Leon Aureus: Associate Producer

Leon Aureus is an actor, writer, designer, producer and filmmaker. Select theatre acting credits include: Oy! Just Beat it!;Aisha ‘n Ben (Theatre Ji); People Power (Carlos Bulosan Theatre/CBT); a nanking winter (Nightwood Theatre); Singkil (fu-GEN Theatre Company – receiving a Dora award nomination for Outstanding Performance) and Yogyakarta (Absit Omen/Bell Tower Theatre). He was also a founding member of fu-GEN Theatre Company where he served as Artistic Director and Artistic Producer. As a playwright, Leon adapted the novel Banana Boys by Terry Woo for the stage and he co-wrote the play People Power with the CBT Collective. Banana Boys was published by Playwrights Canada Press. Leon’s television credits include CBC’s The Border, Discovery Channel’s Mayday and A&E’s Breakout Kings. Also an emerging filmmaker, his short film, Friend’s Like These was nominated for Best Canadian Short at the 2002 ReelWorld Film Festival and The Commute was an official selection of the 2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF). As a graphic designer, Leon’s work can be seen on his on-line portfolio. Upcoming theatre projects include the completion and performance of the CBT Collective’s In The Shadow of Elephants and a collective creation project with UnSpun Theatre Company entitled One Block.

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