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,

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,