Oak Park native Jeffrey Seller, producer of the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton," has made a $1 million gift to Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit.

The gift is the largest one-time grant that Detroit-based Mosaic has ever received.

It will help support Mosaic's summer camp and middle school programs over the next five years as the organization transitions to new leadership following the planned retirement of founder Rick Sperling this coming fall. Part of the gift will also establish an endowment to support future programs.

The gift will come through the Seller-Lehrer Foundation in New York, an organization Seller founded with his partner, photographer and documentarian Josh Lehrer, to support dynamic educational, cultural and environmental organizations and initiatives.

Sperling "daily demonstrates that theater changes lives," Seller said. "His work with Mosaic has lifted and enriched the lives of thousands of young people and we are honored to help support a strong future for this extraordinary institution."

Sperling's leadership and the team he's put in place, Stefanie Worth as executive director and DeLashea Strawder as artistic director "will ensure that this great organization continues to provide artistic and educational opportunity for Detroit students for another 27 years," Seller said.

Seller, who was an attendee and featured speaker at the 2016 Detroit Homecoming event — produced by Crain's Detroit Business — to reacquaint successful "expats" with their native city, last year chose Mosaic as one of three charities to sell tickets to Detroit performances of the Broadway production before they go on sale to the public.

Founded by Sperling in 1992 to address gaps in metro Detroit arts education, Mosaic provides "out of school" programs in theater, vocal music programs and technical stagecraft to more than 500 students from more than 50 metro Detroit schools.

Its alumni have performed on Broadway, on television and on a web series. They have garnered Tony, Emmy, and Grammy nominations, performed for two U.S. presidents and toured three continents.

Ninety-five percent of the students participating in its programs have gone on to college, Mosaic said.

"We have demonstrated success in exposing the exciting world of theatre and music to Detroit's youth," Sperling said in a release.

"As we move onto an exciting future with new leadership in 2019, this grant ensures a smooth transition and our continued ability to fully fund our summer camp and the Mosaic Experience Empowerment Program in Detroit's middle schools."