Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sonia Manzano in conversation with Juan González

Lin-Manuel Miranda, star of the Broadway hit Hamilton, and Sonia Manzano, Sesame Street's “Maria,” in a public conversation with Juan González, Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilization at New York University. This unprecedented event, hosted by the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and The Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty, Arts, Humanities and Diversity, will take place on November 16 at 7:00 p.m. at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square) González, the longtime Daily News columnist and Democracy Now co-host, will lead a dialogue with these acclaimed actors of stage and screen about their lives, their work, the arts, and the cultural politics that have shaped their careers and communities. Sonia Manzano is a fifteen time Emmy Award winning actress, novelist, and memoirist, the originator and long time embodiment of the groundbreaking character “Maria” on Sesame Street, and author of Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx. Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Grammy and Tony Award winning actor, playwright, composer, 2015 MacArthur Fellow, and the creator and protagonist of the Broadway hits Hamilton and In the Heights.