The International Press Academy is proud to honor multi-award winning composer, lyricist and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda with the 2022 Auteur Award at the 26th Annual Satellite Awards.
Miranda rose to international fame as the composer/lyricist of the groundbreaking Broadway musicals, “In The Heights” (2005) and “Hamilton” (2015). “In the Heights” was nominated for 13 Tony Awards and won four, including Best Musical, as well as a 2009 Grammy Award for Original Broadway Cast Album and chosen as a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Miranda won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music for the Original London production of “In the Heights.”
“Hamilton” garnered a record-breaking 16 Tony Award nominations; it won 11, including Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical for Miranda. Two Drama League Awards; a Grammy Award; a Billboard Music Award; seven Olivier Awards; 10 Lortel Awards; three Outer Critic Circle Awards; eight Drama Desk Awards; the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical; an OBIE for Best New American Play; and a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. “Hamilton” also holds the Broadway box office record for one-week sales, earning $4.04 million over eight performances.
A few of his other credits include co-composer (with Tom Kitt), and co-lyricist (with Amanda Green) of Broadway’s “Bring it On: The Musical” (2013 Tony Nom., Best Musical, 2013 Drama Desk Nom., Best Lyrics); the Emmy-winning song “Bigger” written with Tom Kitt for the 67th Annual Tony Awards; several songs from Disney’s feature film Moana which earned him 2017 Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and a 2018 Grammy Award for the original song, “How Far I’ll Go.”
He is a co-founder and member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop improv group that has toured the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as well as the Aspen, Melbourne and Montreal Comedy Festivals. The group created a limited television series for Pivot in 2014 and made its Broadway debut in a self-titled show in 2019.
Miranda is the recipient of the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2002, and lives in NYC with his family.
