Theater director Claire van Kampen has died at the age of 71

She went on to compose original scores for Broadway shows including True West, Boeing-Boeing and La Bete, as well as adaptations of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Richard IIII.

After training at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied music theory and piano, van Kampen joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986.

The following year she joined the Royal National Theater and was then an artistic associate of Sir Mark at Shakespeare’s Globe theater in the capital.

Most recently, van Kampen was a Globe Associate and Senior Research Fellow in Early Contemporary Music at the Globe, as well as a Creative Associate at the Old Vic Theater in London.

She also worked as a musical adviser to the Tudors and arranged the BBC television series Wolf Hall.

Van Kampen had two daughters with her previous husband, architect Christopher van Kampen.

Her daughter Nataasha, a director, died in 2012 at the age of 28 as a result of a brain hemorrhage.