Josh Grisetti, Broadway actor also known for 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' dies at 44

Josh Grisetti, the Broadway histrion who charmed audiences with roles successful “Something Rotten!” and TV’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” has died, a household subordinate confirmed to The Times connected Monday. He was 44.

Grisetti died by termination Friday, his “Something Rotten!” co-star Rob McClure archetypal announced Sunday connected Instagram, adding helium is heartbroken and “not acceptable to adjacent effort to understand.” McClure besides expressed his condolences to Grisetti’s woman and family. The Instagram station included photos of Grisetti and McClure implicit the years, including astatine Grisetti’s wedding. The histrion joined Mackenzie Perpich successful 2020.

“Communities astir the satellite volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid without him. We emotion you Josh,” McClure wrote successful his caption. “Just a cataclysmic loss.”

On Broadway, Grisetti was champion known for starring arsenic Bottom member Nigel alongside McClure’s Nick. The play follows the brace of brothers arsenic they strive for occurrence successful the theatrical satellite amid William Shakespeare’s unstoppable rise. Grisetti portrayed Nigel Bottom from 2017 to 2018 for the show’s nationalist tour. Grisetti besides starred successful philharmonic comedies “It Shoulda Been You” and “Broadway Bound.” He appeared successful award-winning off-Broadway productions including “Rent,” “Peter and the Starcatcher” and “Enter Laughing,” among others.

Grisetti’s determination credits besides see “Spamalot” successful Las Vegas, “How to Succeed successful Business Without Really Trying” astatine the Reprise Theatre, “Beauty & the Beast” and “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” successful La Mirada.

“Thank you, Josh, for sharing your beauteous vigor and immense endowment with us,” the La Mirada Theatre said connected Instagram.

The actor, successful what would beryllium his last Instagram post, announced helium departed a accumulation of “Legally Blonde” astatine the Trentino Music Festival for “personal reasons” earlier the show’s opening.

The festival besides mourned Grisetti successful an Instagram station Monday: “Josh was a loving and caring idiosyncratic who was profoundly dedicated to his friends, his students, and his colleagues. He was beloved by each who knew him, and helium volition beryllium profoundly missed by our students, faculty, and staff.”

Grisetti, calved successful December 1981 successful Roanoke, Va., acted passim puerility and performed successful a assortment of productions, including a kindergarten accumulation of “Peter Rabbit” and precocious schoolhouse productions of “Anything Goes” and “Flowers for Algernon.” He officially earned his Actors’ Equity paper successful 2004 for a accumulation of “Where’s Charley?” astatine the Goodspeed Opera House, helium told Playbill successful 2009.

He besides pursued a vocation successful TV and film, astir notably appearing successful the Emmy-winning bid “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” He appeared arsenic drama writer Ralph Emerson successful the series’ 5th season. He besides had roles successful shows “The Knights of Prosperity,” “Nurse Jackie” and “The Good Fight.”

He appeared successful the movie adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake,” “The Immigrant,” “The Revolutionary Road” and “Men successful Black 3,” among different movies, according to IMDb.

Grisetti, who besides directed assorted philharmonic productions, notably brought his endowment and acquisition to Cal State Fullerton and Loyola Marymount University, teaching acting, philharmonic theatre and business. He besides authored “God successful My Head” successful 2016, an “irreverent spiritual memoir” that details his accidental gathering with God done a “hallucinogenic journey.”

During his clip connected “Price of Broadway” successful 2015, Grisetti reflected connected luck and breaking into the industry. “Luck is required to benignant of spark immoderate things successful this concern a batch of the time, but past endowment is what keeps you there,” helium told Playbill.

“You commencement making your ain luck, you commencement forging your ain connections and making it happen.”