Lin-Manuel Miranda Looks Ahead to New Projects

Tony-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda is currently working on a film version of the Broadway musical 'In the Heights', for which he won Best Original Score (Music or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre and garnered a nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor, though he's already setting his eyes, and goals, on a variety of future projects.

In a conversation with Courant.com's Frank Rizzo Miranda reveals he has two potential musicals in mind he would like to get involved with, as well as another possible show or album based on a song her performed for President Obama at the White House.

"It is a rap song for Alexander Hamilton from the perspective of Aaron Burr. It's 'The Hamilton Mix Tape' and it's all hip-hop music but I've only written two songs so far. Did you read Hamilton's biography? Every page is a hip-hop story, with so much of it echoing the tragic story of hip-hop figures: bastard orphan, entirely self-made man, self-taught, masterful at language, self-destructive tendencies, sex scandals" he tells Rizzo.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score for In the Heights. He wrote the first incarnation of In the Heights during his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, CT. Off-Broadway: In the Heights: nine Drama Desk nominations, including Best Music, Best Lyrics and won the award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance; the Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical; the Obie Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics; a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance and the Clarence Derwent Award, both for Mr. Miranda's performance. He is the recipient of the 2007 ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award.

In the Heights opened on Broadway on March 9, 2008, and continues to play the Richard Rodgers Theatre. In addition to winning the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Lin-Manuel Miranda's accolades, the show's Andy Blankenbuehler won for Best Choreography, and Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman won for Best Orchestrations. The show's scribe, Quiara Alegría Hudes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominee for the show. The original cast recording won the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, and Universal Pictures is currently developing a movie musical adaptation.