Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda is the Tony-winning composer-lyricist of Broadway’s In The Heights. In The Heights received four 2008 Tony Awards (including Best Orchestrations, Best Choreography and Best Musical), with Lin-Manuel receiving a Tony Award for Best Score, as well as a nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Off-Broadway, In The Heights, received 9 Drama Desk Nominations (including Best Music, Best Lyrics) and an award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. In The Heights also won the Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critic’s Circle Award for Best Musical. Additionally, Lin-Manuel received an Obie Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for the show.
In The Heights also took home a 2009 Grammy Award for its Original Broadway Cast Album. In The Heights was recognized as a Finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
As an actor, Lin-Manuel received a 2007 Theater World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance, and the 2007 Clarence Derwent Award
for Most Promising Male Performance courtesy of Actor’s Equity Foundation.
Lin-Manuel also received the ASCAP Foundation’s Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award and is a National Arts Club Medal of Honor recipient. In May of 2009, Lin-Manuel received the degree of Doctor of Human letters, honoris causa, from Yeshiva University, the youngest recipient of such an honor in the University’s 123-year history.
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