Farewell Gavin Creel, a Masterful—and Very Honest—Broadway Star
Mid-conversation with this reporter last year, the Tony Award-winning Broadway star Gavin Creel revealed a tattoo on his left wrist reading “Both.”
This, he said, summed up his attitude to everything in life—things that can be wonderful and terrible, celebratory and melancholy. “I am in a space of all things and everything. At 47 years old, I have realized to love myself is to accept myself, and not judge myself... I am staying open to possibilities—that there is so much more I don’t know and don’t understand.”
Today it was announced that Creel had died at 48, after being diagnosed with cancer—a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma—in July.