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Claire van Kampen Dies: Composer, Playwright, Behind-The-Scenes Multitasker & Wife/Collaborator Of Mark Rylance Was 71
Claire van Kampen, a composer, director, writer and frequent collaborator of her Oscar-winning husband Mark Rylance, died Saturday morning at age 71.
Claire van Kampen, a composer of music for plays and television dramas, as well as a director, writer and frequent collaborator of her Oscar-winning husband Mark Rylance, died Saturday morning at age 71, her family has announced. Her first credited Broadway score was for Sam Shepard’s True West in 2000, which starred Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, Robert LuPone and Celia Weston. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg, a family friend, saw the play, about a Spanish king who couldn’t sleep until he’d been soothed by the voice of a castrato, and persuaded van Kampen to pen a screenplay.
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