Lin-Manuel Miranda

LinManuel Miranda born January 16 1980 is an American composer lyricist playwright and actor best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals Hamilton and In the Heights He was a songwriter for Moana 2016 and Encanto 2021 He also starred in Mary Poppins Returns 2018 Mirandas awards include a Pulitzer Prize two Grammy Awards an Emmy Award a MacArthur Fellowship and three Tony Awards Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical In the Heights which premiered on Broadway in 2008 For this work he won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score the shows cast album won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the show won the Tony Award for Best Musical Miranda was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in the shows lead role Miranda prepared Spanish translations used in the 2009 Broadway production of West Side Story and was cocomposer and lyricist for Bring It On the Musical which played on Broadway in 2012 His television work includes recurring roles on The Electric Company 20092010 and Do No Harm 2013 He hosted Saturday Night Live in 2016 Among other film work Miranda contributed music and vocals for a scene in Star Wars The Force Awakens 2015 Miranda also wrote the book music and lyrics for another Broadway musical Hamilton The show earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and was nominated for a recordsetting 16 Tony Awards of which it won 11 including Best Musical Best Original Score and Best Book For his performance in the lead role of Alexander Hamilton Miranda was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical The Hamilton cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboards Top Rap Albums chart in 2015 while The Hamilton Mixtape an album of covers of songs from the musical developed by and featuring Miranda reached number one on the Billboard 200 upon release in December 2016