Lin-Manuel Miranda to Receive GIFF 2022 Changemaker Award (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comWilson Chapman editorLin-Manuel Miranda will receive the 2022 Changemaker Award from the Greenwich International Film Festival, the festival announced Thursday.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning “Hamilton” creator has been selected for the Changemaker award for his work with the Miranda Family Fund, which supports causes such as education, the arts and social justice, and has been particularly focused on rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017.
In particular, GIFF is recognizing the work the fund has done in the last three years to provide over 80 emerging artists with professional training, support in the business of the arts, access to casting directors, managers, and agents.
Miranda is also receiving the award for his work developing two full-time paid fellowship programs for BIPOC people in the arts world as a way of combating systemic barriers in the industry: a fellowship with acclaimed theater Woolly Mammoth for arts administrators which was announced in December 2020, and a Miranda fellows program at Telsey & Co.
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