Overview
- Rob McClure announced on Instagram on Sunday, July 12, that Grisetti took his own life on Friday, July 10, and Grisetti’s agent described the news as devastating.
- Grisetti built a two‑decade career on stage and screen with Broadway roles in It Shoulda Been You and Something Rotten! and an eight‑episode arc as Ralph Emerson on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
- In recent years he served as associate professor and head of the BFA Musical Theatre program at California State University, Fullerton, where colleagues and students said he was a formative mentor.
- Shortly before his death he posted that he had stepped away from directing Legally Blonde at the Trentino Music Festival for “personal reasons,” and no further details about circumstances have been released.
- Peers across theater and television have posted condolences calling his loss profound, he is survived by his wife Mackenzie, and friends say memorial details will be shared in time.