Bret Hanna-Shuford, the previous Broadway actor and one-half of the social media group the Broadway Husbands, has died. He was 46.
Bret died Saturday after a battle with a uncommon and aggressive type of lymphoma and HLH in Orlando.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we share the information that early this morning we stated goodbye to essentially the most wonderful man, husband and Papa within the universe,” his husband, Stephen Hanna-Shuford and the Broadway Husbands Instagram account shared. “Bret Hanna-Shuford left this world peacefully with love surrounded by his household. Our hearts are damaged however we are going to proceed to make him pleased with us.”
Bret had a longtime Broadway credit score checklist, together with options in Magnificence and the Beast, Depraved and corporations of Cirque Du Soleil’s Paramour, Superb Grace, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Little Mermaid. He and Stephen created their joint social media web page Broadway Husbands, the place they documented their lives as a homosexual mother and father.
Born in Beaumont, Texas, he earned his BA in theater from Wagner School in 2001. He went on to have an in depth profession as a Broadway actor and carried out on the Disney Cruise Line. He additionally acted in a number of tv exhibits, together with Legislation & Order: Particular Victims Unit (2018), Solely Murders within the Constructing (2023) and The Good Fight (2020). Bret additionally appeared Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Road.
Bret and Stephen met in 2007 and wed in 2011 on the Greenwich City Corridor in Greenwich, Connecticut. They welcomed their son, Maverick, in 2022. Their household lately moved to Orlando, the place Bret started his graduate research on the College of Florida.
Bret Hanna-Shuford and his son, Maverick.
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Penguin Workshop lately optioned Bret to pen the youngsters’s ebook Good Night time, Break a Leg. The outline for the ebook reads, “Leap, soar, and dance into the joyous lifetime of a bit boy whose dads are dazzling Broadway performers on this lyrical, rhyming image ebook from one in every of Instagram and TikTok’s Broadway Husbands.” Illustrated by Elena Hager, publication is projected for this summer time.
Along with his husband and son, survivors embody his mother and father, Preston and Deanna; and his brothers, Todd, Eric and Bart.