Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning composer, lyricist, and performer, as well as the recipient of a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award. His most recent musical, Hamilton-book, music, and lyrics by Miranda; he also originated the title role-opened on Broadway in 2015. Hamilton was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and earned a record-breaking sixteen Tony Award nominations, winning eleven Tonys, including two for Miranda personally for Best Book and Best Score of a Musical.
Miranda's first Broadway musical, In the Heights, received four 2008 Tony Awards (including Best Orchestrations, Best Choreography, and Best Musical). Miranda contributed music, lyrics, and vocals to several songs in Disney's feature film Moana, earning him an Oscar nomination and a Grammy Award for the original song 'How Far I'll Go'. He lives in New York City with his wife, sons, and dog. Jonny Sun is the author and illustrator of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too.
Named one of Time's 25 Most Influential People on the Internet in 2017, Sun is currently a doctoral candidate at MIT, an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and a creative researcher at the Harvard metaLAB. His art and illustrations have been exhibited at MIT, the Yale School of Architecture, and Artspace New Haven. His comedic work has appeared on NPR and in Time, BuzzFeed, GQ, and McSweeney's, and he has been profiled in The New York Times Magazine.
Miranda's first Broadway musical, In the Heights, received four 2008 Tony Awards (including Best Orchestrations, Best Choreography, and Best Musical). Miranda contributed music, lyrics, and vocals to several songs in Disney's feature film Moana, earning him an Oscar nomination and a Grammy Award for the original song 'How Far I'll Go'. He lives in New York City with his wife, sons, and dog. Jonny Sun is the author and illustrator of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too.
Named one of Time's 25 Most Influential People on the Internet in 2017, Sun is currently a doctoral candidate at MIT, an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and a creative researcher at the Harvard metaLAB. His art and illustrations have been exhibited at MIT, the Yale School of Architecture, and Artspace New Haven. His comedic work has appeared on NPR and in Time, BuzzFeed, GQ, and McSweeney's, and he has been profiled in The New York Times Magazine.
