Lin-Manuel Miranda Born: January 16, 1980 in New York City, New York, USA Miranda won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for writing the book, music, and lyrics for Hamilton: An American Musical. The citation read, “A landmark American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible.” [Miranda’s… Continue reading Happy Birthday: Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Happy Birthday: Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles Born: January 15, 1957 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico My dad always said there’s four phases in an actor/director’s life. There’s ‘Mario Who?’ There’s ‘Get me Mario!’ ‘Get me a young Mario,’ and ‘Mario Who?’ When young people see movies like ‘Gandhi ‘or ‘JFK,’ there is an element of romanticization of… Continue reading Happy Birthday: Mario Van Peebles
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