#486: Daniel Pollack-Pelzner // Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist // Part Two

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, cultural omnivore and author of Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist , is back for round two and the deep dive continues! This week, Daniel tells us all about the time Stephen Sondheim visited Lin's high school dished the dirt about West Side Story with a room full of teenage theatre kids. That's where Lin learned that not even Sondheim nails it on the first try, and the messy process can lead to something even better than the original. That could be its own episode but hell no there's so much more going on this week! Among other things Daniel talks about what *he* learned while writing the book, the power of a great cliffhanger (seriously, you'll get chills!), and the importance of finding your field of other people in bee costumes. Ahem... I trust you'll understand the reference to the 90's lore without my having to name that tune. Plus, Daniel fills is in about his work on Mary Kathryn Nagle's upcoming (and currently untitled) documentary film on tribal consulting tribal sovereignty in law and theater, and the often-overlooked epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist Daniel Pollack-Pelzner Hollywood: An Oral History by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson Blind Melon - No Rain Mary Kathryn Nagle Changes the Story, in Court and Onstage by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner The MMIW Project Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagel Sliver of a Full Moon 2022: Live Performance and Panel Discussion Sliver of a Full Moon || Radcliffe Institute Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann /// Gillian's Website The Hamilcast on Twitter The Hamilcast on Instagram Join the Patreon Peeps

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#486: Daniel Pollack-Pelzner // Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist // Part Two is an episode from The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast by Gillian Pensavalle.

This episode is 48:40 long.

This episode was published on Sep 29, 2025.

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