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Lin-Manuel Miranda was born on January 16, 1980, in New York City to Luz Towns-Miranda, a clinical psychologist, and Luis Miranda Jr., a political consultant. Source: Wikipieda -
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Lin attended Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School. The elementary school, which drew from communities all over the island, many of his classmates couldn’t pronounce his name. He became Lin at school and Lin-Manuel at home. He spent summers with his
grandparents near San Juan, but he didn’t speak Spanish well enough to fit in
with the other kids. It wasn’t until he got to college that he met others in the Caribbean diaspora; he didn’t have to code-switch
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When Lin-Manuel was in fourth grade, his worlds started to converge even
more when he saw Disney’s 1989 animated musical The Little Mermaid. As the
big calypso number “Under the Sea” began, he couldn’t believe it: He was
hearing the sounds of the Caribbean—steel drums and a syncopated beat—
buoying a giant underwater dance routine. “It rocked my world,” he said. He’d
play the soundtrack at home for his friends, then come to school, leap on a desk,
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After an early version of In The Heights was accepted by Wesleyan's student theater company, Second Stage, Miranda added freestyle rap and salsa numbers, and the show premiered there in 1999. Miranda wrote and directed several other musicals at Wesleyan and acted in many other productions, ranging from musicals to William Shakespeare. He graduated from Wesleyan in 2002.
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Miranda wrote the earliest draft of what would become his first Broadway musical, In the Heights, in 1999, during his sophomore year of college at Wesleyan University. -
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After a 2005 tryout in Waterford, Connecticut and a 2007 Off-Broadway run, the show opened on Broadway in March 2008. Set over three days in New York City's vibrant, largely Dominican-American Washington Heights neighborhood, the musical follows a tight-knit community facing change. -
Lin-Manuel Miranda won his first Tony Award in 2008 for Best Original Score for his musical "In the Heights". He was also nominated for Best Leading Actor for his role in In the Heights the same year. He also took home the award for "Best Musical -
Inspired by Ron Chernow's biography (read in 2008), Lin-Manuel Miranda debuted a rap about Alexander Hamilton at the White House on May 12, 2009, with Alex Lacamoire. Miranda spent a year perfecting songs like "My Shot" to reflect Hamilton's intellect. By 2012, this growing work, the Hamilton Mixtape, was already deemed "an obvious game changer" by The New York Times.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda first presented what would become Hamilton to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House Poetry Jam in 2009. At the time, Miranda introduced it as a "concept hip-hop album" about the life of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton -
Lin-Manuel Miranda's first Grammy was awarded in 2009 for Best Musical Theater Album for the musical In the Heights. -
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Miranda and Vanessa Nadal, with whom he was friends and attended high school together, got married in 2010. -
Miranda co-wrote the music and lyrics for Bring It On with Tom Kitt and Amanda Green. It premiered at the Alliance Theatre in January 2011. It played on Broadway at the St. James Theatre, officially opening on August 1, 2012. The musical follows Campbell, a cheer captain who is unjustly redistricted from her affluent high school to the multi-ethnic Jackson High. Stripped of her squad, she teams up with Jackson's hip-hop dance crew leader, Danielle, to form a new competitive cheer squad. -
In the spring of 2014, the studio hired Miranda to help write and perform music for Moana, its 2016 animated feature film. From 2014 to 2016, Miranda collaborated with Opetaia Foa'i and Mark Mancina on the songs for Moana. Moana opened in November 2016 and was a box office hit, earning positive reviews and praise from critics for Miranda's songwriting. The animated film follows Moana, the strong-willed daughter of a village chief, who is chosen by the ocean to embark on a perilous voyage.
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Lin and Vanessa Welcome their First Son, Sebastian. His son was named after the Jamaican crab from The Little Mermaid, one of his favorite films, the reason for which he took the job of composing the music for the live-action version. Sebastian was the first name listed in the production babies' credits of Moana, for which Miranda wrote the songs. Miranda said Sebastian was bilingual in English and Spanish, and also knew some German. -
Hamilton premiered off-Broadway at The Public Theater in January 2015, directed by Thomas Kail. Lin-Manuel wrote the book and score, and starred as the title character. The show received highly positive reviews, and its engagement was sold out. The show began at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on August 6, 2015, earning positive reviews. This musical blends hip-hop, RB, and traditional show tunes, telling the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. -
President Obama and the First Lady hosted the Broadway cast of the musical “Hamilton” at the White House on Monday, 03/14/16, for a workshop and QA session with local students. President Obama delivered remarks on the history behind "Hamilton," and the cast performed “Alexander Hamilton," "My Shot," and "One Last Time," live for the attendees. -
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Imagine Entertainment announced in July 2018 that Miranda would make his debut as a film director with an adaptation of Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiographical musical Tick, Tick... Boom!, to be scripted by Dear Evan Hansen librettist Steven Levenson. It follows Jon, an aspiring musical theatre composer who is waiting tables in SoHo and nearing his 30th birthday, who is forced to decide between pursuing his creative dream or giving up on art. -
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Miranda received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 30, 2018 -
Miranda collaborated again with Walt Disney Animation Studios on an animated musical titled Encanto, directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, with Charise Castro Smith serving as co-director. The film was released on November 24, 2021. The soundtrack was a success; the song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" rose to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, and Miranda received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Dos Oruguitas". -
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It was released in theaters and temporarily on HBO Max on June 10, 2021. A feature film adaptation of In the Heights spent many years in development. On June 10, 2016, Jon M. Chu came on board to direct the film adaptation of the musical. In the aftermath of numerous sexual misconduct allegations made against Weinstein, his producer credit on the film was removed, with the rights to the film eventually auctioned off to Warner Bros. for $50 million. -
Vivo is about a music-loving kinkajou who embarks on the journey of a lifetime to fulfill his destiny and deliver a love song for an old friend. The soundtrack consisted of eleven songs (with reprise versions of two of the tracks) written and co-composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and performed by the film's cast, with twelve instrumental tracks from the film's score composed by Alex Lacamoire, Miranda's longtime collaborator. Lin also plays the kinkajou, Vivo, in the film. -
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In August 2016, Miranda agreed to write songs with Alan Menken for Disney's forthcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Miranda and Menken wrote four new songs for The Little Mermaid, which had been recorded by April 2020. His involvement was motivated by his lifelong love for the original animated movie, which he credits with making him fall in love with musicals -
He got started on writing the songs for Mufasa at the beginning of 2022. The film premiered on December 20, 2024. Lin is a longtime fan of The Lion King (1994) and was eager to work on this prequel/sequel to the 2019 live-action of that film, but director Barry Jenkins had to wait six months for him. -
The filmed version of the original Broadway production of Hamilton is released in theaters on September 5, 2025. -
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