In The Heights - March 22 - March 24, 2018
Wellington C Mepham High School
Crew Who's Who
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Music and Lyrics; Original Concept
is an award-winning composer, lyricist, and performer, as well as a 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award recipient. Broadway: Composer/Lyricist/Alexander Hamilton of Hamilton (11 Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prize, Grammy Award, 2 Drama League Awards), Composer/Lyricist/Usnavi of In the Heights (4 Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score, Grammy Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nom. for Best Musical), West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations). Off-Broadway: Hamilton (10 Lortel Awards, 8 Drama Desk Awards, among others). With Tom Kitt, Lin-Manuel received an Emmy Award for “Bigger” from The 67th Annual Tony Awards. TV/film: How I Met Your Mother, Smash, Modern Family, House, The Electric Company, Sesame Street, The Sopranos, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, 200 Cartas, and Disney’s Moana (2017 Academy Award nom. for Best Song, “How Far I’ll Go.”)
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Quiara Alegría Hudes
Book
is a playwright, professor of writing and theater at Wesleyan UNiversity, and native of West Philly, U.S.A. Hailed for her work's exuberance, intellectual rigor, and rich imagination, her plays and musicals have been performed around the world. They are Water By the Spoonful (Pulitzer Prize for Drama); In the Heights (Tony Award for Best Musical and Pulitzer finalist); Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Pulitzer finalist); Daphne's Dive; The Good Peaches; Miss You Like Hell; and The Happiest Song Plays Last. Hudes is a playwright in residence at New York's Signature Theater and a proud alum of Philadelphia Young Playwrights.
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