KL Shakespeare Players’ was established in 2009, when an Australia-funded director conducted a two-week Shakespeare workshop for actors. When funding stopped in 2011, the local group took over and focused on taking Shakespeare to secondary and university students. On 3 January 2014, theatre-in-education traveling troupe was formalized and registered itself as a Sendirian Berhad based in KL on 29 January 2019. The association’s focus expanded to include performing for young children, growing the theatre audience, and surfacing good local works.

The company uses inexpensive and simple sets to sustain its purse and ease traveling; often using recycled costumes, rehearsal boxes, and mimed objects. It mostly relies on actors’ skills to breathe life into its productions, and employs various art forms such as Malay shadow puppets, Commedia masks, Japanese butoh, Chinese rod-puppets; fusing the traditional with the contemporary. The music-and-sonic creations it adopts come from diverse eras and with instruments, like the Tibetan singing bowl and Malay kumpang. 

KLSP is owned by two people who engage a pool of freelancers for all its projects. (170)