And in a perfect fusion of career interests, Miranda won an Emmy in 2014 with Tom Kitt for their song “Bigger” from the 67th Annual Tony Awards telecast. The performer also did screen work: He appeared on various TV programs including The Sopranos, How I Met Your Mother and Modern Family as well as in the films The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) and 200 Cartas (2013). Miranda continued to be a force on Broadway, doing translation work for a 2009 revival of West Side Story and contributing music and lyrics to 2012’s Bring It On: The Musical. The musical debuted in 2008 and was a hit, running for almost two years and winning four Tony Awards, including the prize for best musical. With Miranda starring in the production and writing the show’s music and lyrics, In the Heights was set in Washington Heights, featuring Latin sounds interwoven with more standard show tune fare. While at Wesleyan, Miranda started developing the musical that would become In the Heights. After graduation, he worked as a high school English teacher for a time.

He went on to major in theater studies at Wesleyan University.

During his pre-teen and teenage years, Miranda performed in student stage productions while he attended Hunter College’s elementary and high schools. While the Mirandas weren’t able to routinely see live performances, they were nonetheless able to listen to cast recordings.Įxposed to a wide range of musical genres while growing up, Miranda also developed a love of hip-hop, including the music of the Beastie Boys, Boogie Down Productions and Eric B. Miranda and his sister grew up in a music-oriented family - both siblings took piano lessons and were encouraged by parents who loved the music of Broadway (Luis particularly adores the show The Unsinkable Molly Brown). Miranda, Jr., settled in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. His clinical psychologist mother, Luz Towns-Miranda, and his political consultant father, Luis A. Miranda was born on January 16, 1980, in New York City, the son of Puerto Rican parents. Miranda also scored a Grammy Award and an Oscar nomination for composing the song 'How Far I'll Go' from the 2016 animated film Moana and starred in 2018's Mary Poppins Returns. With Miranda in the titular role, the production was a phenomenal success commercially and critically, winning the Pulitzer Prize and 11 Tony Awards in 2016. Founding Father with hip-hop/R&B musical forms and a Black and Latino cast. Inspired by reading Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda eventually developed the musical Hamilton, a groundbreaking work that tells the story of the U.S. He wrote and starred in the Tony-winning 2008 musical In the Heights before working on additional Broadway productions and making screen appearances.

Lin-Manuel Miranda developed a devotion to musical theater and hip-hop before attending Wesleyan University.

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