Lin-Manuel Miranda has won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his musical “Hamilton.”

The choice was widely expected. In my first review of Hamilton, Off Broadway, I wrote “Hamilton” is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking new musical about the life and times of the Founding Father whose face is on the ten dollar bill.

Gloria, currently running at the Vineyard Theater The Humans, Off-Broadway, with Sarah Steele, Arian Moayed, and Jayne Houdyshell

The finalists were Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and The Humans by Stephen Karam.

The citation for Hamilton from the Pulitzer committee reads: “A landmark American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible”

For The Humans:

“A profoundly affecting drama that sketches the psychological and emotional contours of an average American family.”

For Gloria:

“A play of wit and irony that deftly transports the audience from satire to thriller and back again.”

The jury for the Pulitzer in Drama was:

Peter Marks (Chair) Drama critic, The Washington Post Ayad Akhtar (He won the Pulitzer in Drama in 2013 for Disgraced) Playwright, New York City Stephanie Arnold Author, professor emerita of theatre, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR Anne Marie Welsh Theater critic, script editor, San Diego, CA Linda Winer Drama critic, Newsday, Long Island, NY Grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful grateful great full — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) April 18, 2016 Hamilton is just the ninth musical to with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in the award’s 100-year history. The others were: Of Thee I Sing (1933), South Pacific (1950), Fiorello! (1960), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962), A Chorus Line (1976), Sunday in the Park with George (1985), Rent (1996), and Next to Normal (2010).

Below is the complete list of prior Pulitzer Drama winners, with links to their citations (Since 1983, the Pulitzers have made public the finalists, which has become its own form of accolade.)

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