Long before he wrote, composed and starred in the record-breaking hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda taught seventh-grade English in Manhattan. “It’s not about making a bunch of artists out of high school students,” he recalled. “Art is the gateway to so many other professions: It’s doing the school play and learning you like to boss people around so you become a manager, or that you really liked being on a tech crew … It widens the aperture of your very small high school universe.” Born in New York City in 1980, Miranda started work on his breakthrough musical, “In The Heights,” in college. With Pulitzer, Tony, Emmy and Grammy awards, he’s a major campaigner for arts education funding. “The impact of arts education on my career is complete, total,” he says, “and it saved my life.”
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