Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026ME: I hadn’t know that in bradykinesia, the prefix brady- means slow. WIFE: Yeah, like a slow heart rate is bradycardia. SON: Or like Tom Brady. 020
Reposted by Daniel Pollack-PelznerStephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach.bsky.social · 14/04/2026My latest episode of Paraphrase podcast is about one of my favorite new books: Lin-Manuel Miranda-The Education of an Artist by @pollackpelzner.bsky.social. The book is both a fascinating exploration of Lin-Manuel's life & work, and a deep dive into the very process of creativity. 4202
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 29/11/2025What’s your top Stoppard? Mine: 1. Arcadia 2. Travesties 3. Shakespeare in Love 4. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead 5. Rough Crossing (h/t OSF 1997) 230
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Is “cloaked in Gucci and in scandal” Taylor’s first zeugma? 160
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Loved talking to the brilliant Sondheim Hub! 050
Reposted by Daniel Pollack-PelznerHarvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social · 22/08/2025📅 Tues. 9/20 @ 6PM: We join the Cambridge Public Library in welcoming Daniel Pollack-Pelzner for a discussion of his highly anticipated biography "Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist". He will be joined in convo by Dani Snyder-Young. Learn more and RSVP for free here: buff.ly/dFtjete 041
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 13/09/2025The most thoughtful and perceptive review of my book I’ve seen so far. Thanks @npr.org 020
Reposted by Daniel Pollack-PelznerStephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Happy pub day to my great friend @pollackpelzner.bsky.social and his extraordinary biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda. This book is a delight. It tells Lin's story through the lens of how he became such an incredible artist. It's fast-paced, funny, and humane. I loved it and believe you will too! 3211
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Book excerpt in the New York Times! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/t...nytimes.comHow Lin-Manuel Miranda Weathered the Storm 081
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Thanks for reading and reviewing, Martin. I’m so glad you took comfort, as I’d hoped, in finding that the creative process poses challenges for everyone. 100
Reposted by Daniel Pollack-PelznerScarlett Harris @scarletteharris.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Book 129: Lin-Manuel Miranda - The Education of an Artist by @pollackpelzner.bsky.social 111
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Glad to write about the resonance of #Hamilton on its 10th anniversary for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...nytimes.comOpinion | ‘Hamilton’ Feels Different 10 Years Later 030
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 05/08/2025The play I identify most strongly with is A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. It’s the tragedy of what happens when your in-law comes to stay with you and you only have one bathroom. 020
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Friends, I'm thrilled to share that my biography of Lin-Manuel Miranda is available to pre-order before its Sep 9 release. I talked with LMM and 150 of his inspirations about how he learned to become an artist. Hope the story inspires you! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lin-Ma...simonandschuster.comLin-Manuel MirandaAn intimate and captivating exploration of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s artistic journey, revealing how the creator of the Broadway musicals Hamilton and I... 130
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Is there a more thrilling sequence of songs than You Don’t Know / I Am the One / Superboy and the Invisible Girl / I’m Alive? #NextToNormalPBS 010
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Am I wrong to hear Remmick’s lusty “Sammie!” as an echo of Al Jolson’s “Mammy!”—minstrelsy as a kind of vampirism? #Sinners 000
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I was so sorry to learn of Misha Berson's passing. I loved reading her Seattle theater dispatches; I relished her book on the making of West Side Story; and after I had the pleasure of serving with her on a Chekhov panel, I was delighted that she'd keep in touch. www.orartswatch.org/a-farewell-t...orartswatch.orgA farewell to theater critic Misha Berson • Oregon ArtsWatchThe longtime Seattle theater and culture writer, who also contributed often to Oregon ArtsWatch, embraced life and art with passion and a constant case of curiosity. 021
Reposted by Daniel Pollack-PelznerAisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Black history is every month all the time, of course, but I’ll play this game. Almost a decade ago, Dan Kois and I put together the Black Film Canon, then we updated it in 2023, and it’s a great (but def not exhaustive!) primer for black film history: slate.com/culture/2023...slate.comThe 75 Greatest Films by Black DirectorsAs chosen by critics and filmmakers—and including four movies from 2022. 317464
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025ME: Who’s the most popular singer with your high school friends? SON: Probably Billie Eilish. ME: Honestly—and this is my shortcoming—I don’t really get her. She always sounds half-asleep. SON: Have you met any high schoolers? 000
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Hope so. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/a...nytimes.comOnly 3 Black Women Have Won the Grammys’ Top Award. Is Beyoncé Next?Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill’s album of the year wins all came in the 1990s. Beyoncé’s fifth shot, for “Cowboy Carter,” arrives Sunday night. 000
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 20/12/2024I’m sure this is all over Disney’s internal memos, so let’s just say it outright: Mufasa is the Henry VI Part 3 to The Lion King’s Richard III. 040
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024MACBETH: I don’t know what the poor cat does in the adage, okay? Every time you bring it up, I just nod. 😂😂😂 @katepitt.bsky.social www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...mcsweeneys.netThe Macbeths Listen and Don’t JudgeWe listen and we don’t judge. LADY MACBETH: I hate it when you introduce me as your “Dearest partner of greatness.” What’s wrong with “wife”? We li... 194
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Love this! deadline.com/2024/12/keta...deadline.comJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson To Make One-Night-Only Broadway Debut In ‘& Juliet’, Fulfilling Lifelong DreamUnited States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will make her Broadway debut – you read that right – with a one-night-only walk-on role in & Juliet, the hit musical comedy in which the femal... 000
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 06/12/2024‘Tis the season… medium.com/@rachelaxler... 010
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 04/12/2024No better way to encourage students to write plays than a Paula Vogel bake-off! 010
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 02/12/202410 musicals to get to know me: Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton In the Heights 020
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 01/12/2024My favorite new musical this month: Serial hired Pasek & Paul to write a sea chanty for a killer whale. Is it almost a parody of my liberal fantasies? Yes. Is it also haunting, clever, and searching, befitting human attempts to describe the orca himself? Yes. 🐳🎶🌊 open.spotify.com/episode/7Jbo...open.spotify.comEpisode 5: At SeaThe Good Whale · Episode 100
Reposted by Daniel Pollack-PelznerSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I recommend setting aside some time to read this thoughtful essay. I found it to be very clarifying and grounded in actual detail rather than pundit-y projections. 37728146
Reposted by Daniel Pollack-PelznerRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024In response to the election, a lot of people have been talking about the importance of organizing. Here are some Native groups doing THE WORK to consider donating to or volunteering with: 410155
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Best rhyme in #Wicked? 1) absurd degree/verdigris 2) analysis/dialysis/a pal, a sis 3) were…well, are/pop-u-lur…lar 150
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner @pollackpelzner.bsky.social · 27/11/2024ME: Not really feeling Moana 2. MY DAUGHTER: Et tu, Brute? 260