VIDEO: HAMILTON's Renee Elise Goldsberry Praises Diversity & Strong Female Roles on Broadway

Tony nominee Renée Elise Goldsberry stopped by this morning's TODAY to talk about her exciting year she's had starring in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton. "I will spend the rest of my life trying to put [this year] into words," she shared. "It's humbling and exciting and exhausting and exhilarating. It's just been a dream come true." Later, the actress discussed the diversity and strong female characters featured in this year's crop of Broadway shows. Watch the appearance below!

Goldsberry received a 2016 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for her role as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton. Her other Broadway credits include Good People, The Color Purple, Rent, The Lion King. Off-Broadway credits include Hamilton (Lortel and Drama Desk Award), As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.