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The Education of an Artist: Lessons from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Journey
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Presented by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, Author and English and Theater Scholar
Moderated by Lisa Schmucki, Founder and CEO, edWeb.net
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Lin-Manuel Miranda has transformed the world of musical storytelling with his giant stage and screen hits: Hamilton, In the Heights, Moana, Encanto, and more. But this Grammy-, Tony-, Emmy-, and Pulitzer-winning songwriter didn’t do it alone. As a new book, Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist, argues, Miranda’s success stems not only from innate genius, but from a lifetime of insatiable curiosity and an overwhelming appetite to learn from everyone around him.
Join author Daniel Pollack-Pelzner for this edWebinar to explore the teachers who shaped Miranda’s journey from the shy, sensitive child of Puerto Rican parents, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in the northernmost tip of Manhattan, to the galvanizing force who would expand America’s sense of its own story. How can we, as educators, nurture the future Lin-Manuels in our classrooms and communities? What are the parenting, teaching, collaborative, and creative lessons that Miranda’s story reveals?
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 teachers and school leaders, as well as higher education educators interested in the arts.
About the Presenter
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner has written about theater and contemporary culture for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. Born and raised in Oregon, he teaches theater history at Portland State University and is the Scholar-in-Residence at the Portland Shakespeare Project. He lives in Portland with his wife, whom he met in a fifth-grade production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and their two children.
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