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Lin-Manuel's Orgin
His parents named "Lin-Manuel" after a poem about the Vietnam War by Puerto Rican writer José Manuel Torres Santiago titled "Nana roja para mi hijo Lin Manuel" ("Red Lullaby for My Son Lin Manuel"). Miranda grew up in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan and was raised as a Catholic. Miranda has one older sister, Luz, who is the Chief Financial Officer of the MirRam Group, a strategic consulting firm in Government and Communications. -
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Miranda's Influences
Many people influenced Lin-Manuel Miranda's career, These include family, Musical theater, Jonathan Larson, Alexander Hamilton, H.W. Brands and Joanne Freeman, and John Kander. Also, Miranda developed an early interest in '90s hip-hop and rap, thanks to both his older sister and a school bus driver. Young Luz took her brother to see Beat Street, an early hip-hop film, and introduced him to artists like the Fat Boys, the Beastie Boys and Eric B. -
Lin-Manuel Miranda's birth
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. He is of predominantly Puerto Rican descent and also has distant Mexican, English, and African American ancestry. During childhood and his teens, Miranda spent at least one month each year with his grandparents in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. -
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Hunter College Elementary and High School
Among Miranda's classmates was Chris Hayes, now a journalist. He was Miranda's first director when Miranda starred in a school play, described by Hayes as "a 20-minute musical that featured a maniacal fetal pig in a nightmare that [Miranda] had cut up in biology class". His classmates also included Immortal Technique, a rapper who had bullied Miranda, although the two later became friends. Miranda began writing musicals at school. -
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Attending Wesleyan University
Lin-Manuel Miranda attended Wesleyan University for four years, graduating in 2002. During his time at Wesleyan, he wrote and directed several musicals, acted in many productions, and performed in musicals. Once he got to college and realized that he could write his own experience, and create his own opportunities. Miranda headed to Wesleyan University in 1998 to pursue a double major in film and theater (by graduation, only theater had stuck). -
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The Drama Book Shop
Miranda co-owns The Drama Book Shop in New York City with Broadway director Thomas Kail. -
In the Heights
This was Lin-Manuel Miranda's first musical, which he began writing in 1999 while attending Wesleyan University. After its first performance, the musical opened on Broadway on March 9th, 2008 at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York City. The show ran for 1,185 performances and closed 3 years later, on January 9th, 2011. -
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In the heights Awards
Miranda made his Broadway debut in 2008, writing the music and lyrics for and starring in the musical, In the Heights, which won the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. -
Worked with Sesame Street
Miranda first appeared on Sesame Street in 2008, singing the "Murray Has a Little Lamb" theme song. He also made guest appearances, including as real estate agent Freddy Flapman in the season 40 premiere. -
Worked with Broadway
Miranda is known for his Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. He also co-founded and produced Freestyle Love Supreme, and co-composed and co-lyricist for Bring It On: The Musical. -
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Other Collaborations
Miranda has also worked on TV and film, including His Dark Materials, Fosse/Verdon, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Saturday Night Live. -
Tying the Knot
Miranda and Nadal met as students at Hunter College High School and married in 2010. "I took this on Photobooth while she called her parents," he tweeted in 2017, along with a photo of Nadal with her left hand covering part of his face. Nadal and Miranda tied the knot one year later. They exchanged vows at the Belvedere Mansion in Staatsburg, New York, on September 5, 2010. -
Bring It On
This was when Bring It On was first performed. This is a musical with music by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, lyrics by Amanda Green and Miranda, and books by Jeff Whitty. The musical, loosely based on the 2000 film of the same name written by Jessica Bendinger, focuses on the competitive world of cheerleading and over-the-top team rivalries. The musical had a national tour from November 2011 to June 2012, later running on Broadway from August 1, 2012 to December 30, 2012. -
Bring It On Awards
Bring It On: The Musical received multiple Tony Award nominations in 2013, including: Best Musical, Best Choreography, Outstanding Book of a Musical, Outstanding Lyrics, and Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical. The musical was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography. -
Sebastian was born
His son Sebastian 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 announced the birth on Twitter with a photo of the newborn and the message, "[The screams reach a frenzied pitch. SEBASTIAN MIRANDA enters. He is 7 pounds 10 ounces.] End Of Act One -
The flu
In 2015, Miranda was out of his Broadway show Hamilton indefinitely with the flu. -
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Hamilton Awards
Miranda returned to Broadway in 2015, writing the script, music, and lyrics for as well as starring in the musical Hamilton, which was praised by critics. Hamilton won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for a record 16 Tony Awards and won 11, including Miranda's first win for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. The Hamilton cast recording spent 10 weeks atop Billboard's Top Rap Albums chart and became the eleventh-biggest album of the 2010's. -
Hamilton Musical
This is when Hamilton was first premiered. 10 years later, the musical Hamilton premiered off-Broadway at the Public Theater in New York City on February 17th, 2015. Soon after, it moved to Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theater for its official opening on August 6th, 2015. -
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Worked with Dinsey
Miranda has written original songs for Disney films, including Moana (2016), Encanto (2021), and Mufasa: The Lion King. He also starred as Jack in the 2018 Disney musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns. -
Diagnosed with Shingles
In April 2018, Miranda was diagnosed with shingles, a viral infection caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV) that also causes chickenpox. One in three Americans will get shingles in their lifetime, and the risk increases for adults over 50. Miranda also missed a performance of Hamilton in 2015 due to illness. He told The Graham Norton Show that he tried to perform even though he had a 104-degree temperature. -
Francisco was born
The two announced that they were expecting in December 2017, after fans noticed Nadal was showing at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards red carpet. Night. He announced the 2nd birth on Twitter with the caption, [The screams reach a delirious crescendo. FRANCISCO MIRANDA enters. He is 7 pounds and 13 ounces.]
Intermission. Miranda's son Francisco is listed as a production baby in the credits for Vivo. Francisco, like his older brother, has also written songs about breakfast foods. -
Covid's Upside
New legislation being introduced to Congress is looking to provide a lifeline to struggling regional theatres facing profound effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to The Los Angeles Times, the Supporting Theater and Generating Economic Activity Act would annually provide $500 million in federal funding via grants for nonprofit regional theatres for five years. -
Sick Children
Sick children
In 2019, Miranda tweeted that his children had been sick, with his 1-year-old hospitalized in Puerto Rico and his 4-year-old having a virus. He assured fans that everyone was okay. -
Covid's Downside
If passed, the legislation would be a major boon to an industry still reeling from pandemic losses. In just the past few weeks, major cuts were revealed at Chicago's Steppenwolf and Lookingglass, Off-Broadway's The Public Theater and Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group. The STAGE Act is designed to end this troubling trend and aid recovery for these and other theatrical institutions nationwide. -
Sick while hosting a screening
In 2023, Miranda announced on Instagram that he was sick and couldn't host a screening of When Harry Met Sally. -
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin-Manuel_Miranda https://m.playbill.com/person/lin-manuel-miranda-vault-0000006865 https://playbill.com/article/lin-manuel-miranda-phylicia-rashad-more-supporting-new-legislation-to-address-regional-theatre-crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Lin-Manuel_Miranda