LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA is a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award-winning songwriter, actor, director and producer. Creator and original star of Broadway’s Tony-winning Hamilton and In the Heights. Additional Broadway: New York, New York (Additional Lyrics), Freestyle Love Supreme (Co-Founder, Guest Star, Special Tony Award Recipient), Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist) and West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations). Miranda received the 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award, the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors and was named Billboard’s Top Hot 100 Songwriter of 2022. Mr. Miranda, and the Miranda Family, are active supporters of initiatives that increase people of color’s representation throughout the arts and government, assure access to women’s reproductive health, and promote resilience in Puerto Rico. TV/Film credits include: tick, tick… BOOM!, Vivo, In the Heights, Hamilton (2021 Emmy Award), Percy Jackson & The Olympians, His Dark Materials, Fosse/Verdon, We The People, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Curb Your Enthusiasm (2018 Emmy Nomination, Guest Actor), Saturday Night Live (2017 Emmy Nomination, Guest Actor), Bluey, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, House, DuckTales, The Little Mermaid, Moana (2017 Oscar nomination, Grammy Award for Best Original Song), Mary Poppins Returns and Encanto (2022 Oscar nomination, two 2023 Grammy Awards). Miranda received his B.A. from Wesleyan University. He lives in New York. www.linmanuel.com