International Courant
Claire van Kampen, a theater director, composer and spouse of actor Mark Rylance, died Saturday morning. She was 71.
Van Kampen died in Kassel, Germany, “surrounded by her household” following a battle with most cancers, Rylance and her daughter Juliet shared in an announcement. Saturday was additionally her husband’s sixty fifth birthday.
“We thank her for imbuing our lives together with her magic, music, laughter and love,” the household’s assertion learn. “Ring the bell, sound the trumpets reverie, one thing is finished, one thing is starting. One of many nice sensible ones has handed.”
Born on Nov. 3, 1953, in London, England, van Kampen went on to review music idea and piano, specializing within the efficiency of Twentieth-century music, on the Royal Faculty of Music in London.
She started her skilled profession in theater in 1986 with the Royal Shakespeare Firm. She joined the Royal Nationwide Theater the next 12 months.
Sam Shepard’s True West (2000) was credited as her first Broadway rating. Her different credit embrace Boeing-Boeing (2008), La Bête (2010), Twelfth Evening (2013), Richard III (2013) and Farinelli and the King (2017), which all starred Rylance. She additionally wrote the latter, which was nominated for a Tony Award in 2018.
All through her profession, van Kampen additionally served as a creative affiliate at Shakespeare’s Globe from 1996 to 2006, a musical marketing consultant and resident composer to director Dominic Dromgoole from 2007 to 2015 and a inventive affiliate of the Previous Vic Theater in London.
Van Kampen was beforehand married to architect Christopher van Kampen. They welcomed daughters Juliet and Nataasha, the latter of whom died at age 28 in 2012.
