Ins Choi

Choi's 2013 one-man show, The Subway Stations of the Cross, was inspired by the homeless and mentally ill men he met in parks and public spaces across Toronto. He has also created the show, The Beats and the Breaks, about hip-hop, as well as The KJV: The Bible Show. In 2018 and 2019 Choi toured with his stage show Ins Choi: Songs, Stories and Spoken Word.

Insub "Ins" Choi (Korean: 최인섭; RR: Choe Inseob) is a Korean Canadian actor and playwright best known for his Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated 2011 play Kim's Convenience and its subsequent TV adaptation.

In March 2005, Choi married Mari, with whom he has two children. They reside in Toronto. He is a Christian.

Choi attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute in the early 1990s. He graduated from York University's theatre program in 1998. His first application to the fine arts program at York was rejected. He completed a Master of Theological Studies at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, graduating in 2002. He credits his success to his studies at Wycliffe, which he believes made him a better writer.

Born Insub Choi in South Korea in 1974, Choi moved to Canada at the age of one and grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, which is now part of Toronto. His father was born in North Korea and "walked south" with his family as a child. Choi's mother grew up in South Korea, where she met and married her husband before emigrating to Canada with Choi and his two older sisters in 1975. His father worked as a pastor of an immigrant church in downtown Toronto that he owned and founded.