It was the New York struggle in musical form, and it took place now. People struggling with disease, struggling with poverty. Suddenly, here I was seeing a musical that took place not in a far-off land, or in a far-off country, but in the West Village with people struggling whether to stay in the arts or sell out. Rent came out when I was 17-I saw it on my 17th birthday, 1997. His thoughts on his two award-winning works, and the state of theater today, are below. Josephine Reed talked with Miranda in New York City in February 2016 during the run of Hamilton. Additionally, Miranda is a co-founder and member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a popular hip-hop improv group that performs regularly in New York City. Miranda co-wrote the music and lyrics for Bring It On: The Musical with Tom Kitt and Amanda Green, which opened in 2011. His first musical, In the Heights, also a Grammy Award winner, took home four Tony Awards in 2008.
His soundtrack to the musical-a hip-hop riff on Alexander Hamilton’s life-took home a Grammy in 2016, and the play continues to draw huge audiences in New York. Already a Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner (among other awards), Miranda received a MacArthur Foundation Award in 2015, the same year his current musical, Hamilton, opened on Broadway to sold-out crowds.
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