Lin-Manuel Miranda

In tick, tick… Boom!, Andrew Garfield tackles his first major musical role by stepping into the shoes of the acclaimed American composer and playwright Jonathan Larson. The Netflix movie is based on the autobiographical musical by Larson, who also wrote the award-winning musical Rent, and it serves as the feature directorial debut of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Since the musical Hamilton premiered on Broadway in 2015 and achieved pop-culture phenomenon status, Lin-Manuel Miranda has become a household name. 2020, however, was definitely a year that consolidated the artist’s gravitas in the core of the entertainment industry.

As a child, Lin-Manuel Miranda could not finish watching the original Mary Poppins. Because as soon as he heard Julie Andrews sing the melancholic “Feed the Birds”, he would cry.

New York born composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, Pulitzer Prize winner for the hit musical Hamilton, met with the HFPA to talk about his new musical score for Disney’s animation Moana.   Asked to define music he replied: “My definition of music?  You're kind of like asking me to define a sunrise or define a hurricane, you know.