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She continued to paint, exhibit and curate exhibitions under the banner of Archangel Exhibitions.

Stars would return out of their love for Sinclaire Lightsmith and Crawford. Many famous actors began their careers at the Kings Head Theatre, including Hugh Grant, Imelda Staunton and Victoria Wood. During that time she produced over 60 plays and musicals many of which were award-winning or transferred to London's West End or Broadway. Career Ī painter and a poet at the time of her marriage to Crawford, she became increasingly involved with the King's Head Theatre, first as Literary Manager and then as Associate Artistic Director. She was survived by her eight siblings, her daughter Katherine Wyeth, and her three grandchildren. She moved to New Zealand in 2010, and died on 14 April 2021 from a sudden heart arrhythmia while swimming in the sea. She later extended this to Sinclaire Lightsmith. In the 1990s she changed her name to Sinclaire, as she wanted a stage name that was not given to her by a man.

Sinclaire Lightsmith and Crawford married in 1985. Within a year she had fallen in love with him, and divorced Kastin. He was eccentric, charismatic, and loved stories of all kinds. In 1984 they moved to London to join her husband's former stepfather, Daniel Crawford, who had founded the King's Head Theatre, in Islington in 1970. Their only daughter, Katherine Kastin, was born soon after, and went on to be a zoologist, actress, theatre producer and therapist. Sinclaire married Matthew Eliot Kastin in 1980 and moved to Berkshire, UK. She could not complete her degree as her father stopped paying the course fees as he disapproved of her living with a boyfriend. In 1972 she enrolled in the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, where she studied literature with absurdist playwright Michael McClure and painting while working for Laurel Burch jewellery design. In 1968 she attended Windsor Mountain High School in Lenox, Massachusetts, a utopian experiment that began in Europe. Her parents divorced and when she was three years old and her mother married Joseph DiLalla, a small band leader, who played with ‘Baby’ Rose Marie, Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong and others in Las Vegas and elsewhere, travelling continually around America in their Cadillac. She was born Stephanie Anne Weiss on February 28, 1954, in New York to Harvard Law graduate and Naval officer Howard A Weiss and singer and painter Bernice Joan Smith.