Brown’s Daveed Diggs Wins Tony for Hamilton
Monday, June 13, 2016
Brown grad Daveed Diggs wins the 2016 Tony for his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette.
As the Brown Daily Herald wrote about then Brown track star Diggs:
"As if performing and maintaining his status as a star runner weren’t enough, Diggs has had a leading role in the Central Falls High School Arts Literacy Program. His freshman year, he developed a program with Jody Green ’03 that required students to deconstruct plays and write them in their own terms. Students would then perform the work themselves, using more street-friendly formats to convey the play’s themes. Soon, Diggs and Green were teaching students in the English as a Second Language Program “Romeo and Juliet,” using their hip-hop based format."
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