<P> As a child , Miranda wrote jingles , including one later used for Eliot Spitzer 's 2006 gubernatorial campaign . After attending Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School , Miranda graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002 . During his time there , he co-founded a hip hop comedy troupe called Freestyle Love Supreme . He wrote the earliest draft of In the Heights in 1999 , his sophomore year of college . After the show was accepted by Second Stage , Wesleyan 's student theater company , Miranda added `` freestyle rap ... and salsa numbers . '' Second Stage premiered it in 1999 . Miranda wrote and directed several other musicals at Wesleyan and acted in many other productions , ranging from musicals to Shakespeare . He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Wesleyan University in 2015 . </P>
<P> As a child , Miranda wrote jingles , including one later used for Eliot Spitzer 's 2006 gubernatorial campaign . After attending Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School , Miranda graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002 . During his time there , he co-founded a hip hop comedy troupe called Freestyle Love Supreme . He wrote the earliest draft of In the Heights in 1999 , his sophomore year of college . After the show was accepted by Second Stage , Wesleyan 's student theater company , Miranda added `` freestyle rap ... and salsa numbers . '' Second Stage premiered it in 1999 . Miranda wrote and directed several other musicals at Wesleyan and acted in many other productions , ranging from musicals to Shakespeare . He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Wesleyan University in 2015 . </P>
when did lin manuel miranda start writing in the heights
when did lin manuel miranda start writing in the heights
1999
1999