Ins Choi

Playwright/Actor

Born in South Korea and raised in Toronto, Choi grew up as the only son of a Korean church pastor, an experience that profoundly shaped his storytelling. He studied theatre at York University and found his artistic voice in Toronto’s Asian Canadian theatre scene, where he first developed Kim’s Convenience. Over the years, he has created and performed a variety of works, including The Subway Stations of the Cross and The KJV: The Bible Show, each weaving together his faith, creativity, and lived experience.

In Son of a Preacherman, Choi takes audiences on an intimate and engaging journey through music, spoken word, and storytelling, reflecting on Bible stories, his creative process, and what it was like growing up in a Korean church. Filled with warmth, wit, and moments of deep reflection, this one-of-a-kind performance is sure to resonate long after the curtain falls.

Kaitlin Williams she/ her

Director

Kaitlin Williams is an interdisciplinary theatre artist born and raised on the unceded, shared territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Since earning her BFA in Acting at the University of Victoria, she has shared her heart and skills with many productions as a director, actor, and costume designer.

A long-time member of the Pacific Theatre community, Kaitlin began her theatre career in 2009 as a PT apprentice. She has had the honour of serving as Artistic Director since 2020. PT directing highlights: Son of a Preacherman, A Case for the Existence of God, Empire of the Son, God Said This, Wakey, Wakey, Kim's Convenience, Mother of the Maid, Almost Maine, Testament; PT acting highlights: Meeting, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Foreigner, Jesus Freak, It’s a Wonderful Life.

Kaitlin has also worked with Bard on the Beach, the Arts Club, the Belfry Theatre, ITSAZOO, Delinquent Theatre, the Electric Company, Chemainus Theatre, Western Canada Theatre, Touchstone Theatre, Rumble Theatre, and many others. She has been grateful to receive Jessie nominations for both her acting and directing. In 2022 Kim’s Convenience won Calgary’s Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production. She has served on the Canadian Actor Equity Association’s Director, Choreographer, Fight and Intimacy Directors’ Advisory Committee.

Above all, Kaitlin is a community builder and believes theatre is one of the best ways we can commune together--to bear witness to what it means to be human, grow in our empathy, and collectively attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the world around us. When not in the theatre she is happiest spending time with her husband Ben, and their daughter Mirren June.

April Starr Land she/ her

Stage Manager

April Starr Land is a Vancouver-based stage manager. She has enjoyed many years of stage managing at: The Arts Club Theatre, Bard on the Beach, Stratford Festival of Canada, and Pacific Theatre—most recently Ins Choi’s Son of a Preacherman. April Starr feels so very fortunate to be involved in this special production of Wakey, Wakey and sends love and appreciation to the entire dream team. I love you Elizabeth and Noah.

Jessica Oostergo

Production Designer (set/ costumes)

Jessica is a Set and Costume Designer, born and raised in Vancouver BC, and a new resident of Edmonton. Her design work has been seen on stage and screens across North America.


Jessica worked as the Assistant Head of Wardrobe at Bard on the Beach for seven seasons and has taught Design Foundations and Set Design for Studio 58. She is a four-time Jessie Richardson Award Winner with a total of eight nominations, and a graduate of Studio 58 and Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Select Credits: Antigone, Julie Caesar (Bard); The Play That Goes Wrong (Arts Club); Death of a Salesman (Citadel/Arts Club); the Handmaids Tale (Banff Centre/Detroit Opera); Elf (RMTC); Die Walküre, Siegfried (Edmonton Opera); Heist (Grand/Citadel), A Streetcar Named Desire (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); The Sound of Music (Grand/MTC/Citadel).

Jonathan (Jono) Kim

Lighting Designer

Jonathan, better known as Jono, is an award-winning Korean-Canadian lighting designer who currently lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations; also known as Vancouver, BC. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University's: School for the Contemporary Arts - Performance Production & Design program.

Recent credits: Behind The Moon (Touchstone Theatre); Son of a Preacherman (Pacific Theatre); Casey and Diana (Arts Club); English (Blackout Art Society); The Baking Show Show: The Play (Ruby Slippers Theatre); A Journal of the Plague Year (Studio 58); Franklinland (Arts Club); Something Rotten! (Studio 58); Canadian Psycho (ITSAZOO / vAct); On Native Land (Urban Ink); The Paper Bag Princess (Carousel Theatre); Legally Blonde (Metro Theatre); The Little Mermaid (Theatre Under the Stars).

Rachel Angco

Actor/ Musician

Rachel Angco is a second-generation Filipina-Canadian artist based in “Vancouver”. As a graduate of the UBC BFA Acting program, Rachel’s credits range from musical theatre and experimental theatre to film, motion capture, commercial, and voice-over work. Rachel began her performing journey singing jazz with live bands across the lower mainland and now continues her passion for music through songwriting and composition. Currently, in a Master of Management at UBC Sauder School of Business, she is passionate about story-telling as a tool for investigating cross-cultural identity building and the vastness of the human experience to build connections across differences.

Ben Elliott

Actor/ Musician

Ben, a fellow PK, is delighted to share the PT stage with these incredible performers. Ben's last project with PT was composer for Ron Reed's adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Next, you can catch Ben as Cal in The Arts Club's production of Waitress which runs this summer. Ben is a graduate of Studio 58, Bishops University and the lucky husband to Kori.

Haneul Yi

Musical Director/Actor

Haneul Yi (he/him) is a Korean-Canadian actor-musician, music & vocal director. As a performer/MD, he loves to veer away from the Western piano-centric sound and focus on a earthy, rhythmic, guitar-centric sound. His music is his language, integrity & honesty.
Recent Performing credits include Alligator Pie (SoulPepper), A Year With Frog & Toad (Capitol Theatre), Alice In Wonderland (Bad Hats), & Once (Thousand Islands Playhouse). MD'ing credits include new works Noche Buena and Kabilang Buhay.

Shona Struthers

Sound Engineer

Cassie Unger she/her

Apprentice Director

Cassie Unger is an artist and educator who is passionate about bringing powerful and meaningful stories to life through versatile and realistic performances. Born and raised in Oregon, she first performed onstage at the age of 10 and received a Bachelor of Creative Arts and Drama. Her artistic endeavours have continued since, spanning devised theatre, spoken word and vocal performance, film, script writing, teaching both youth and adult theatre classes, and helping to fund a theatre company (Little Dipper Theatre). Some of her favourite projects include: Tempting Providence (Gallery 7), The Trip to Bountiful (United Players), the 2023 Incubator Project (The Harlequin Theatre Society), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Pacific Theatre), devising and performing in Wild Light (Little Dipper).