Lin-Manuel Miranda Scores 62,500 Hamiltons As MacArthur 'Genius' by Jeremy Gerard

Three theater artists who share an innate and expanding ability to astonish were among the 24 people named Monday evening as this year’s MacArthur Fellows — commonly known as “genius grants” because they include a stipend of $625,000, paid out over five years, that comes with no strings attached. Lin-Manuel Miranda, 35, is the composer, author and star of Hamilton, which is playing to…

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