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Born
January 16, 1980 · New York City, New York, USA

Spouse
Vanessa Nadal Miranda (September 5, 2010 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That’s what happened to my parents; that’s what happened to me.

[his favorite episode of The Twilight Zone (1959)] Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He’s great at playing that “I’m the only one sane in the world” character. What “Twilight Zone” did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil. In the best works of fiction, there’s no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy’s got his reasons.

[Miranda’s June 15, 2008, acceptance speech (in the form of a freestyle rap) after winning a Best Score Tony Award for “In the Heights.” The speech contained a reference to an earlier piece of musical theater, Stephen Sondheim’s 1984 show Sunday in the Park with George–specifically, its song “Finishing the Hat,” in which an artist relates the difficulties of creating art and balancing his personal life to the act of painting a hat.]