林-曼努埃尔-米兰达 编剧、作曲家和表演者

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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Playwright, Composer, and Performer | Class of 2015
Expanding the conventions of musical theater with a popular culture sensibility and musical styles and voices that reflect the diverse cultural panorama of the American urban experience.


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Playwright, Composer, and Performer
Location
New York, New York
Age
35 at time of award
Area of Focus
Theatrical Arts
Website
linmanuel.com
Social
Twitter
Published September 29, 2015
ABOUT LIN-MANUEL'S WORK
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a composer, lyricist, and performer reimagining American musical theater in works that fuse traditional storytelling with contemporary musical styles and voices. Well-versed in the structure and history of musical theater, Miranda expands its idiom with the aesthetic of popular culture and stories from individuals and communities new to Broadway stages.

In the Heights (2007), which Miranda began to write while in college, is set in Manhattan’s Dominican district, Washington Heights, and expresses the pathos of an immigrant community losing its neighborhood to gentrification and its younger generation to assimilation and upward mobility. In the opening scene, Miranda showcases his linguistic dexterity in the character Usnavi (played by Miranda himself), who interweaves song, dance, and narration to introduce the other various characters. They, in turn, express themselves in musical styles ranging from hip-hop to salsa.

Miranda continues to explore the dramatic potential of hip-hop in Hamilton (2015), in which he uses an urban soundscape to tell the story of Alexander Hamilton’s rise from an orphaned West Indian immigrant to America’s first Treasury Secretary. Miranda presents policy battles, love triangles, and duels through high velocity lyrics, replete with false and slant rhymes, that expand the range of both pop and Broadway music. The daring pairing of street culture with America’s founding narrative recalls the youthful, defiant spirit of the American Revolution, and cross-racial casting connects the present day to the diverse immigrant society of the thirteen rebel colonies. Melding a love of the musical with a pop culture sensibility, Miranda is expanding the conventions of mainstream theater and showcasing the cultural riches of the American urban panorama.

BIOGRAPHY
Lin-Manuel Miranda received a B.A. (2002) from Wesleyan University. His other theater credits include co-composer and co-lyricist of Bring It On: The Musical (2011); actor in revivals of tick, tick…BOOM! (2014) and Merrily We Roll Along (2012); new original music for a revival of Working (2012); and the mini-musical, “21 Chump Street,” for This American Life (2014). He is also a member of the improv hip-hop group, Freestyle Love Supreme.



林-曼努埃尔-米兰达
编剧、作曲家和表演者｜2015级
拓展音乐剧的惯例，以大众文化的感受力和音乐风格及声音来反映美国城市经验的不同文化全景。


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标题
剧作家、作曲家和表演者
地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为35岁
关注领域
戏剧艺术
网站
linmanuel.com
社会
推特
发表于2015年9月29日
关于林-曼努埃尔的作品
林-曼努尔-米兰达是一位作曲家、作词家和表演者，他的作品将传统的故事与当代的音乐风格和声音融合在一起，重新想象美国的音乐剧。马兰达精通音乐剧的结构和历史，他用流行文化的审美和来自个人和社区的故事扩展了音乐剧的习性，使之成为百老汇舞台上的新亮点。

马兰达在大学期间开始创作的《高地》（2007年），以曼哈顿的多米尼加区华盛顿高地为背景，表达了一个移民社区因绅士化而失去邻里关系，以及其年轻一代被同化和向上流动的悲哀。在开头的场景中，米兰达在Usnavi（由米兰达本人扮演）这个角色中展示了他的语言技巧，他交织着歌曲、舞蹈和叙述来介绍其他不同的角色。他们反过来用从嘻哈到萨尔萨的音乐风格表达自己。

马兰达在《汉密尔顿》（2015）中继续探索嘻哈的戏剧潜力，在这部作品中，他用城市的声音来讲述亚历山大-汉密尔顿从一个西印度移民孤儿到美国第一任财政部长的故事。米兰达通过高速的歌词呈现了政策之争、三角恋和决斗，其中充满了虚假和倾斜的韵律，扩大了流行音乐和百老汇音乐的范围。大胆地将街头文化与美国的建国叙事结合在一起，让人想起美国革命的青春和反抗精神，而跨种族的选拔则将当今社会与13个叛乱殖民地的多元化移民社会联系起来。马兰达将对音乐剧的热爱与流行文化的感受融合在一起，扩大了主流戏剧的惯例，展示了美国城市全景的文化财富。

个人简历
林-曼努尔-米兰达获得了卫斯理大学的文学学士学位（2002年）。他的其他戏剧作品包括《Bring It On: The Musical》（2011年）的联合作曲家和联合作词家；在《Tick, tick...BOOM! (2014)和Merrily We Roll Along (2012)；为复兴的《工作》(2012)创作新的原创音乐；以及为《美国生活》(2014)创作迷你音乐剧 "21 Chump Street"。他也是即兴嘻哈团体Freestyle Love Supreme的成员。