Malcolm Gets

Malcolm Gets is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Richard in the American television sitcom Caroline in the City. Gets is also a dancer, singer, composer, classically trained pianist, vocal director, and choreographer. His first solo album came out in 2009 from PS Classics.
Gets was nominated for a Tony Award in 2003 and was awarded the Obie Award in 1995.

Life and career

Gets was born in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of Lispbeth, an educator, and Terence Gets, a college textbook salesman. Both parents grew up in London, England. He moved with his family to New Jersey. He lived there until he was six, when his family moved to Gainesville, Florida. He has an older brother Erik, an older sister Alison and a younger sister Adrienne.
Gets started studying performing arts early in life. He began studying piano at age nine. This skill helped him pay his way through college. He began singing lessons at 14. He also danced with a studio in Gainesville as a teenager.
Gets skipped two years of K-12 education and graduated from Buchholz High School in Gainesville, Florida, aged 16. He then attended the University of Florida, where he won Best Newcomer's Award in acting and at age 24 earned a BFA in Theatre. Following that, he completed an MFA at the Yale Drama School.
Gets came out as gay in the late 1990s and lives with his partner.

Filmography

Television

Film

Theater

Gets was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical in 2003 for his work in Amour.
Selected work

Amadeus
Cloud Nine
Little Shop of Horrors as Seymour
''As Is''
Special Events
Dreamgirls as Film Executive
Passion as ''Colonel Ricci ''
Off-Broadway
Juno as Johnny Boyle
Hello Again as The Writer
Merrily We Roll Along as Franklin Shepard
The Two Gentlemen of Verona as Proteus
A New Brain as Gordon Michael Schwinn
Boys and Girls as Jake
Polish Joke as Jasiu Sadlowski
Finian's Rainbow as Og
Vigil by as Kemp
Banished Children of Eve as Stephen Collins Foster
Allegro as Joseph Taylor Sr.
Steve as Stephen

Gets was awarded the Obie Award for his work in Merrily We Roll Along and The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1995.

Other appearances

The Colorado Catechism by Vincent J. Cardinal as TY
The Boys from Syracuse Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart. New Book by Nicky Silver. Based on the Original Book by George Abbott. as Antipholus of Ephesus
Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
Finian's Rainbow with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by EY Harburg as Og
*1997 at Freud Playhouse on the campus of UCLA
*2004 Irish Repertory Theatre
*2005 at Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut
Camelot at the Hollywood Bowl as Mordred
Party Come Here at Williamstown Theatre Festival as Orlando
"Lisbon Traviata" at The Kennedy Center
Awards and nominations

Music

;Soundtracks

"Tradition/To Life" - in celebrity concert to benefit A.I.D.S. research, recorded as The S.T.A.G.E. Series: Adler, Bock, Coleman.
Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim - singles and duets recorded with Barbara Cook, such as "Into the Woods" and "Not While I'm Around".
Grey Gardens - two duets recorded with Jessica Lange, such as "I Won't Dance" and "We Belong Together".