Gavin Creel, the musical theater actor who won a Tony Award for “Hello, Dolly!” and an Olivier Award for “The Book of Mormon,” died on Monday at his home in Manhattan.
Gavin Creel, the musical theater actor who won a Tony Award for Hello, Dolly! and was nominated for Hair and Thoroughly Modern Millie, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 48.
Creel’s death was confirmed by his partner, Alex Temple Ward, via a publicist, Matt Polk. The cause was metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, which Creel learned he had only two months ago.
Born April 18, 1976 in Findlay, Ohio, Gavin Creel began his career in musical theater touring and doing regional work before landing the breakout role of Jimmy Smith opposite Sutton Foster in the Broadway production of Thoroughly Modern Millie.
After touring in the Chicago production of Stephen Sondheim’s Road Show, Creel made his acting debut in the 2003 film Eloise at the Plaza and its sequal, Eloise at Christmastime.
