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Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance (born 3 November 1953) is an English director, composer and playwright. She composed the music for Mark Rylance's 1989 performance as Hamlet and shared the 2007 Sam Wanamaker Award with him. Her composing credits include music for productions of the plays Days and Nights and Boeing-Boeing.

Claire van Kampen
Born	(1953-11-03) 3 November 1953 (age 69) London, England
Occupation	Director composer playwright
Spouse(s)	Chris van Kampen (divorced) Mark Rylance ​ (m. 1989)​
Children	2, including Juliet Rylance

In 2015, she was historical music advisor and arranger of Tudor music on the BBC TV series Wolf Hall.

Early life

Van Kampen was born in Marylebone, London, England. She originally trained as a pianist at the Royal College of Music for five years, becoming the recipient of a John Land scholarship. As a girl she met David Munrow, a recorder player and pioneer of the early music scene in England, and became interested in Renaissance music.[1]

Studying music theory with Dr Ruth Gipps, she also specialised in the performance of 20th century music, premiering works by today's composers.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 1986, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Royal National Theatre, the first female musical director with both companies. In 1990, she co-founded the theatre company Phoebus Cart with her husband Mark Rylance.

Since the opening of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in 1997, van Kampen has been the Director of Theatre Music, creating both period and contemporary music for 30 of the Globe's productions – including the 'jazz' Macbeth in 2001, and The Golden Ass in 2002, which contained a 30-minute opera Cupid and Psyche.

In spring 2007, she received the Vero Nihil Verius award for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, conferred upon her by Concordia University in Oregon, United States. Together with Mark Rylance and Jenny Tiramani, she received the 2007 Sam Wanamaker Award for the founding work during the opening ten years at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

Farinelli and the King is van Kampen's historical play about the relationship between Farinelli, the castrato, and the Spanish King Philippe V, first performed at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in February and March 2015, and at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End, London from September to December 2015, with Mark Rylance as Philippe V. It received six Olivier Award nominations including Best Play. In 2016 she directed Mark Rylance in Nice Fish at the St. Ann's Warehouse, New York. The production subsequently transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre[2][3]

Personal life

Van Kampen was previously married to an architect, Chris van Kampen, with whom she had two daughters, the actress Juliet Rylance and the late filmmaker Nataasha van Kampen.[4] She met Mark Rylance in 1987, and they married in Oxfordshire on 21 December 1989.[5]

Her daughter Nataasha died of a suspected brain haemorrhage on a flight from New York in July 2012 at the age of 28.[6]

Theatre (selected credits)

Year	Play	Theatre of performance
1991	The Tempest	Shakespeare's Globe, London
1994	As You Like It	TFANA, New York City
2000	True West	Circle in the Square Theatre, New York City
2007	Bash at the Trafalgar Studios	Theatre of Memory, London
2007	Love's Labour's Lost	Shakespeare's Globe, London
2007	Boeing-Boeing	Comedy Theatre
2007	I am Shakespeare	Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
2008	Peer Gynt	Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
2007	Boeing-Boeing	Longacre Theatre, New York City
2008	Peer Gynt	Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
2008	Romeo and Juliet	Theatre of Memory at Middle Temple Hall, London
2008	The Clean House	Royal & Derngate Theatre, London
2009	Helen	Shakespeare's Globe, London, and US Tour
2009	Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme	Hampstead Theatre, London
2009	King Lear	Shakespeare's Globe, London
2010	Henry IV	Shakespeare's Globe, London
2010	La Bete	Music Box Theatre, London and Broadway
2012	Twelfth Night	Apollo Theatre, London and Broadway
2019	Shakespeare Walks	Shakespeare's Globe

References

External links

• Claire van Kampen at IMDb
• Claire's Lecture in a series on The Building of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse – Part 5: Music in the new theatre, August 2013
• Claire and Mark on A.R.T. theatre in New York
• Claire's composition for a Midsummer Night's Dream, here performed in Taiwan
• Claire's composition for the movie Days and Nights

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