Spelman, long recognized as the leading educator of women of African descent, is now one of the most selective women’s colleges in the United States. During her tenure as president, the college has been marked by innovation and growth. Beverly Daniel Tatum has served as president of Spelman College since 2002. A 2002 graduate of Wesleyan, he lives in New York City with his wife and son.Ī 2013 recipient of the Carnegie Academic Leadership Award, Dr. Miranda has appeared in New York City Center’s “Encores!” productions of Merrily We Roll Along and tick, tick… BOOM! His television and film credits include Sesame Street, The Electric Company, The Sopranos, House, Modern Family, Smash, How I Met Your Mother, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, and 200 Cartas. Additionally, Miranda is a co-founder and member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a popular hip-hop improv group that launched its own television series on Pivot TV in 2014. His latest stage work is Hamilton, a musical based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which had its world premiere at the Public Theater in New York City in 2015.Īlong with composer Tom Kitt, Miranda won the 2014 Creative Arts Emmy for Best Original Music and Lyrics for their work on the 67th Annual Tony Awards. Miranda is also the co-composer/co-lyricist of Broadway’s Bring it On: The Musical, which received a 2013 Tony nomination for Best Musical. The show’s first incarnation was staged at the ’92 Theater at Wesleyan in 2000. In The Heights was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lin-Manuel Miranda is the Tony and Grammy-winning composer-lyricist of Broadway's In the Heights, which received four 2008 Tony Awards, with Miranda receiving a Tony Award for Best Score, and a nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Price, the longtime executive director of Goodspeed Musicals. Wesleyan also will award honorary degrees to Beverly Daniel Tatum ’75, president of Spelman College and an expert in race relations and higher education, and Michael P. ![]() Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02, an award-winning composer, lyricist, writer and actor, will present the Commencement address. Wesleyan will honor three remarkable leaders in their fields with honorary degrees at the University’s 183rd Commencement on May 24, 2015. Roth Sent: Wednesday, Janu11:59 AM Subject: Wesleyan's 2015 Honorary Degree Recipients
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