Great Names Visit From Hamilton Creator Sept. 29

Hamilton College will help celebrate the 10th anniversary of Hamilton by welcoming Lin-Manuel Miranda as the next guest in the Sacerdote Great Names series.

The composer, creator, and original star of the Tony Award-winning musical will give a talk Monday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.

The event will be free and open to the public, but tickets will be required. Tickets will be available at www.hamilton.edu/greatnames in early September.

This will be Lin Manuel Miranda’s second appearance on the Hamilton campus.

He performed what became one of the musical’s numbers on campus in 2012 to kick off Hamilton’s Bicentennial celebration. An award-winning songwriter, actor, director and producer, Miranda began writing the song-and-rap Broadway smash in 2008 after reading Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton.

The writing and development process continued until the musical’s premiere in 2015.

Hamilton received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and earned a record-breaking 16 Tony nominations, of which it won 11, including two for Miranda for Book and Score of a Musical. Miranda also created and starred in the 2008 Broadway musical In the Heights.

It received four 2008 Tony Awards, Miranda received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2002.

He lives with his family in New York.