VIDEO: HAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda's University of Pennsylvania Commencement Speech

Add an honorary doctor of arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania to the ever-expanding list of accomplishments for the Broadway smash HAMILTON's author and star Lin-Manuel Miranda.

At this morning's commencement ceremony, the Grammy/Tony-winner and MacArthur Fellow spoke to UPenn's graduating class of 2016, reminding them that "the stories you are about to live are the ones you'll be telling your children and grandchildren and therapists."

"We are honored to bestow our highest degree on Lin-Manuel Miranda and have him speak at Penn's 260th Commencement," Penn President Amy Gutmann said. "Miranda is one of the most innovative and stunningly brilliant artistic voices of and for our time. As a lyricist, composer, playwright and actor, he has accomplished nothing short of remaking the great American artistic form of musical theater and telling the history of our founding through the most creative, evocative and thought provoking contemporary lens. In doing so, he has woven bold stories of our lives that are transformative and provocative and inspire and challenge us to not be bound by convention. As Miranda's title character Hamilton raps, evoking Penn's own spirit: 'I'm just like my country/ I'm young, scrappy and hungry/And I'm not throwing away my shot.'"

His complete address can be enjoyed in the video.

HAMILTON opened on August 6, 2016 at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre. The cast of Hamilton is comprised of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Daveed Diggs (Marquis De Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler), Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Rory O'Malley (King George), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler, Maria Reynolds), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton alternate), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan, James Madison), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens, PhilipHamilton) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton).

With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire,Hamiltonis based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation's first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway,HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now.