ABOUT US
Effort Productions was founded in 2016 by James Kemp and Sophie Angelson. We are a London-based theatre, film, and television production company.
All our work is devoted to the art of storytelling in all its forms. At the heart of our ethos is the work of Yat Malmgren: Movement Psychology/Character Anaylsis. As such, the focus of our work is on clear, elaborately drawn, physically realized characters with strong objectives. Our productions are inherently linked to the way our actors, writers, and directors are trained and nurtured in our Training programme. James Kemp, sole inheritor of the work of Yat Malmgren, acts as both Artistic Director and Training Director of Effort Productions.
Our company celebrates the perpetual student, the artist hungry to know more, to explore, to create, and transform themselves and their audience, the human being who longs to express his or herself as fully as possible.
We produce and develop work by established and non-established writers, giving platforms for diverse voices in our industry, welcoming adaptations and reimagined stories, and exciting interdisciplinary collaborations.