Lin-Manuel Miranda & Ben Platt

Manhattan native Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Tony- and Grammy Award-winning theater arts polymath best known for writing, composing, and starring in Broadway hits such as In the Heights and Hamilton: An American Musical. Interested and active in the arts from a young age, he wrote, directed, and acted in the independent film Clayton's Friends (1996) while only in his mid-teens. Of Puerto Rican descent himself, he began working on the stage musical Into the Heights, about the mostly Puerto Rican/Cuban/Dominican-American Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights when he was a stu...