PhotosGo Inside the Monte Cristo Awards Honoring Lin-Manuel MirandaThe Hamilton creator was honored at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s gala at the Edison Ballroom April 30.
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Marc J. Franklin
April 30, 2018
Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda is the recipient of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 18th annual Monte Cristo Award, given each year to a theatre artist whose work has had an extraordinary impact on American theatre.
The Hamilton and In the Heights creator was presented with the award at a gala dinner at New York’s Edison Ballroom April 30.
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Go Inside the Monte Cristo Awards honoring Lin-Manuel Miranda
The O’Neill Theater Center was home to Miranda’s first professional production: a presentation of In the Heights at the National Music Theater Conference in 2005. The musical, which Miranda co-wrote with Quiara Alegría Hudes, went on to play Off-Broadway’s 37 Arts Theater before transferring to Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre (now home to Hamilton). Miranda, who also starred, won his first Tony Award for his score.
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