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 right 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 revealed that Creel had died at 48, after being diagnosed with cancer—a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma—in July.

Read more at The Daily Beast.