Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Pulitzer Prize-, MacArthur Fellowship-, Tony-, and Grammy-winning theater and film polymath. Offering a unique hybrid of rap, Latin, R&B, pop, and show tune traditions, he first became widely known for writing, composing, and starring in the Broadway hits In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical. In addition to a hit cast album, the latter broke the record for a single-week box-office gross for a Broadway show in November 2016. That set the stage for work on the Disney animated film Moana (2016) -- which included his Oscar-nominated song "How Fa...