Gavin Creel, a Broadway veteran who won a Tony Award for Hello Dolly! and requests for Hair et Millie totally moderndied Monday of a rare and aggressive form of cancer. He was 48 years old.
Publicist Matt Polk said Creel died at his Manhattan home from metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma.
Creel played the role of Dr. Pomatter in the musical by Sara Bareilles Waitress on Broadway in 2019 and in the West End in 2020. He won an Olivier Award for The Book of Mormon.
He played Steven Kodaly in the 2016 production of She loves me at Studio 54. The following season, Creel was cast as Cornelius Hackl, opposite legends Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce, in the hit 2017 revival of Hello Dolly! directed by Jerry Zaks.
He also played the singing waiter Bill in the films Eloise at the Plaza et Eloise at Christmas alongside Julie Andrews.
In 2021, he is in the cast of Ryan Murphy’s miniseries American Horror Stories against Matt Bomer. His 2022 solo concert was filmed for the first episode of the PBS show. Stars on stage at Westport Country Playhouse.
He is survived by his mother, Nancy Clemens Creel, and his father, James William Creel; his sisters, Heather Elise Creel and Allyson Jo Creel; and his partner, Alex Temple Ward.
