Photo FeaturesCelebrate Stage and Screen Star Lin-Manuel Miranda With a Look at His Career HighlightsThe Tony, Pulitzer, Grammy, and Emmy winner and Hamilton creatorcelebrates his birthday January 16.
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Playbill Staff
January 16, 2021
Tony, Pulitzer, Grammy, and Emmy winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, In the Heights) celebrates his birthday January 16.
The actor, composer, and producer, recently seen in HBO's His Dark Materials, made his Broadway his Broadway debut as the star and creator of In The Heights in 2008. Shortly therafter, Miranda returned to the Main Stem in 2009, providing Spanish translations to the Arthur Laurents-helmed revival of West Side Story. Miranda would go on to co-write the score to Bring It On: The Musical in 2012. In 2015, Miranda returned to Broadway with his hit musical Hamilton, which would garner 11 Tony Awards and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
In addition to his stage work, Miranda has worked in film and television as a composer with movies including Moana, a producer in shows such as Fosse/Verdon, and an actor in Mary Poppins Returns, His Dark Materials, and more.
As previously announced, the stage-to-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ In the Heights will hit movie theatres and HBO Max June 18.
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Look Back at the Career Highlights of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Look Back at the Career Highlights of Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Robin De Jesus, Karen Olivo and Lin-Manuel Miranda in In the Heights
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Lin-Manuel Miranda and company of In The Heights.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast in In the Heights
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Celia Keenan-Bolger, Colin Donnell, and Lin-Manuel Miranda in Merrily We Roll Along at City Center Encores!
Betsy Wolfe, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Adam Grupper
Conceived and directed by Stephen Sachs, the work follows an 18 year-old who turned in his father to the FBI via real-life public statements and court transcripts.
