Alex Lacamoire is an arranger, musical director, orchestrator, conductor and musician…probably best-known for his collaborations with Lin-Manuel Miranda: In the Heights and Hamilton. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, he began his career on Broadway as musical director of Bat Boy: The Musical. He worked extensively with Stephan Schwartz on the national tour of Godspell, Captain Louie, and Wicked. But it was his work with Lin-Manuel Miranda that brought him a Tony award for best orchestration for the musical In the Heights—making Alex the first Latino to win that award and the first Berklee graduate to win a Tony. He followed that with a Grammy for best musical theater album—for in the Heights…and repeated the process in 2016 with a Tony and a Grammy for Hamilton.
The National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with Alex Lacamoire
