Claire van Kampen, Theater Composer, Director and Wife of Mark Rylance, Dies at 71
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variety.comEllise Shafer Claire van Kampen, a theater composer, director, playwright and the wife of actor Mark Rylance, has died. She was 71.
According to an announcement from her family, van Kampen died on Saturday morning — also Rylance’s 65th birthday — in Kassel, Germany.
The cause was cancer. Van Kampen was the first female musical director for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre when she joined both companies in 1986.
There, her credits included composing the music for the 1989 production of “Hamlet” starring Rylance, who she wed that same year.
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