Composer, Director, Mark Rylance’s Spouse Was once 71

Claire van Kampen, a theater composer, director, playwright and the spouse of actor Mark Rylance, has died. She was once 71.

In line with a statement from her circle of relatives, van Kampen died on Saturday morning — additionally Rylance’s sixty fifth birthday — in Kassel, Germany. The motive was once most cancers.

Van Kampen was once the primary feminine musical director for the Royal Shakespeare Corporate and the Royal Nationwide Theatre when she joined each corporations in 1986. There, her credit incorporated composing the song for the 1989 manufacturing of “Hamlet” starring Rylance, who she wed that very same yr.

She was once prior to now married to the architect Chris van Kampen, with whom she had two daughters, the actor and manufacturer Juliet Rylance and Nataasha van Kampen, a budding filmmaker who died in 2012.

When the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opened in 1997, van Kampen labored as a creative affiliate whilst Rylance was once creative director till 2006. She then served because the Globe’s resident composer and musical marketing consultant underneath creative director Dominic Dromgoole thru 2015. Till her demise, van Kampen was once a Globe affiliate and senior analysis fellow for early fashionable song in addition to an inventive affiliate of the Outdated Vic Theatre. In 2007, van Kampen gained the Sam Wanamaker Award for her pioneering paintings in Shakespearean theater along Rylance and theatrical fashion designer Jenny Tiramini.

As a playwright, van Kampen wrote “Farinelli and the King,” which debuted in 2015 and was once nominated for 6 Olivier Awards and 5 Tony Awards, together with absolute best play. In 2018, she made her debut as a director on the Globe with “Othello” starring André Holland.

In line with her bio at the Globe web site, van Kampen was once lately running on adapting “Farinelli and the King” for the display screen and was once additionally fascinated about a movie concerning the painter Elaine de Kooning.

“We thank her for imbuing our lives together with her magic, song, laughter and love,” a remark from Mark and Juliet Rylance reads. “Ring the bell, sound the trumpets reverie, one thing is completed, one thing is starting. One of the crucial nice sensible ones has handed.”