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Claire van Kampen was composer and music director of the A.R.T. productions of Hamlet and The Seagull in 1991. She began her theater career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986, followed by work at the Royal National Theatre in 1987, becoming the first woman to be a musical director with either company. She has subsequently developed an international career as a composer/ performer, writing and playing for theatre, radio, television and film soundtracks and the concert hall. Since the opening of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London in 1997, she was Mark Rylance’s Associate Artistic Director, and the Founding Director of Theatre Music, creating both period and contemporary music for more than 35 of the Globe’s productions. She is now a Senior Research Fellow and Associate for Early Modern Theatre Music at the Globe. Other work includes music for La Bête on Broadway and the West End; Richard III and Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe/West End/Broadway; True West and Boeing-Boeing on Broadway; As You Like It at Theatre for a New Audience. Her new play Farinelli and the King ran in the West End last fall and is to become a screenplay. Recent films featuring her music include Anonymous, Days and Nights, and the miniseries Wolf Hall (historical music arranger). She was given The Vero Nihil Verius Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts at Concordia University in Portland, OR and the 2007 Sam Wanamaker Award for the founding work during the opening ten years at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. 

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Sylvia, Old Times, The Visit (Tony nomination), Airline Highway (Tony nomination), The Nance (Tony nomination), Of Mice and Men (Tony nomination), The Heidi Chronicles, Macbeth at Lincoln Center (Drama Desk nomination), and The Snow Geese. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center, Public Theater, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, MTC, MCC, LAByrinth, and Vineyard Theatre. International: West End, Royal Shakespeare Co-Stratford, La Scala- Milan, Nederlands Opera-Amsterdam, Edinburgh International Festival, National Theater of Greece, National Theatre of Korea, and Opera Lyon. 

A.R.T.: Debut. As the Resident Sound Designer for the Guthrie Theater, Edwards has designed over 100 productions in the last 20 years. Minneapolis/St. Paul area: The Children’s Theatre Company (over 40 productions), The Jungle Theater, Penumbra Theatre Company, Mixed Blood Theatre, Illusion Theater, Ballet of the Dolls (founding member), Theater Mu, Eye of the Storm Theatre, Teatro Latino, The Minnesota Opera. Regional: San Jose Rep, Arizona Theatre Company. Radio: Production Manager/Live Sound Engineer, Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Awards: Minneapolis Star Tribune Outstanding Sound Designer (2003, for Pride and Prejudice; 2004, for The Pirates of Penzance); Helen Hayes Award nomination (2014, You Can't Take It With You, Arena Stage). 

Claire van Kampen was composer and music director of the A.R.T. productions of Hamlet and The Seagull in 1991. She began her theater career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986, followed by work at the Royal National Theatre in 1987, becoming the first woman to be a musical director with either company. She has subsequently developed an international career as a composer/ performer, writing and playing for theatre, radio, television and film soundtracks and the concert hall. Since the opening of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London in 1997, she was Mark Rylance’s Associate Artistic Director, and the Founding Director of Theatre Music, creating both period and contemporary music for more than 35 of the Globe’s productions. She is now a Senior Research Fellow and Associate for Early Modern Theatre Music at the Globe. Other work includes music for La Bête on Broadway and the West End; Richard III and Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe/West End/Broadway; True West and Boeing-Boeing on Broadway; As You Like It at Theatre for a New Audience. Her new play Farinelli and the King ran in the West End last fall and is to become a screenplay. Recent films featuring her music include Anonymous, Days and Nights, and the miniseries Wolf Hall (historical music arranger). She was given The Vero Nihil Verius Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts at Concordia University in Portland, OR and the 2007 Sam Wanamaker Award for the founding work during the opening ten years at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. 

A.R.T.: Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3). Off-Broadway: Lost Girls, MCC; Grounded, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1,
2 & 3), Antony and Cleopatra, Public Theater; The Odyssey, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Public Theater Public Works (dir. Lear deBessonet); Vinegar Tom, Pentecost, PTP/NYC at Atlantic Stage 2. National Tour: Flashdance the Musical. Regional: The Scottsboro Boys, CTG/Old Globe/A.C.T.; Allegiance, A Room With a View, Odyssey, Engaging Shaw, Old Globe; Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, A Dram of Dummhicit, La Jolla Playhouse; What is the Cause of Thunder?, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Adjunct Faculty at Adelphi University. MFA, UC San Diego.