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. Early Life and Education Miranda was born on January 16, 1980, in New York City, the son of Puerto Rican ...
ADAM: Wow. It's been such an honor to speak with the two of you and a real delight to so much fun in closing. I would love to just ask you each, what impact do you hope In the Heights will have. LUIS: I think that I wanted a real opening for Latinos to be in Hollywood. Uh...
Though the Miranda Family Fund has been active for years in donations to the arts community, especially arts education, the donations announced Wednesday mark an expansion in its giving for immigration, which previously included working with the Hispanic Federation to establish the Immigrants...
Lin-Manuel Miranda:Not in a million years! Although I have to say, I think that some part of me did imagine that I wanted a life in the arts. I knew I wanted a life pursuing creative endeavors. And I know that having the gift of a public school education that had money ...
’s “Wait for It,” the Disney+ debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton offered all the thrills of the musical’s original Broadway staging, with the added bonus of running commentary from Miranda; his wife, Vanessa Nadal; and the show’s cast via their Watch Party over on Twitter ...
hasdonated and raisedtens of millions of dollars in relief funds. Miranda and his collaborators spent more than a decade trying to bringIn the Heightsto the screen, and successfully ensured that it was eventually filmed on location in the real Heights. Miranda has also stayed loyal to his New...
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel)July 6, 2020 Miranda has addressed the tension before, most recently onNPR last month, when he spoke about the show in the context of Black Lives Matter. "It's a system in which every character in our show is complicit in some way or another," said...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA, GERMAINE FRANCO, GREIG FRASER, TAMARA DEVERELL, PETER SCIBERRAS, KELLY PORT, PAUL MASSEY, JACQUELINE WEST, BOB MORGAN, FREDERIC ASPIRAS AND GÖRAN LUNDSTROM ARE HONORED WITH VARIETY ARTISANS AWARD AT THE 37TH ANNUAL SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ...
Hamilton also had a lasting effect on culture as a whole. The show is often taught as part of U.S. History classes, prompting the Mirandas to create the Hamilton Education Program, which allows students to explore American history with a lens that expands outside of textbooks. ...
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has been inspired by the many signs he's seen at anti-Trump protests that quote his show's lyric "Immigrants, we get the job done.