Jason Pilgrim is loving the community spirit here
Theatre NorthWest’s production of Kim’s Convenience sees a Toronto actor take to the stage for his professional theatre debut.
The play, written by Ins Choi, was a huge hit before becoming an award-winning sitcom on CBC television in 2016 and running for five seasons. He went straight to New York to take a six-week summer intensive and from there dove straight into Toronto’s community theatre scene. He acted in fringe festival productions, student films and non-union commercials before the pandemic changed the theatre world for a few years. He decided to continue his studies.
“That was a wonderful experience and later that summer I also appeared in a play called Who You Callin’ Black, Eh? and it premiered at the Toronto Fringe Festival and we had a space at the Factory Theatre. We got lucky because it was very well received and we won the Teenjur Young Critics Award,” Pilgrim said. “And that was all before the pandemic.”
Kim’s Convenience is at Theatre NorthWest until December 18 and started on Nov. 21. That’s a long run by any standards, short of shows on Broadway.
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