Jeffrey Seller is one of the most successful Broadway producers of our time — and the only one to have mounted two Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals: Hamilton and Rent. From his early days as an office assistant, to meeting Jonathan Larson and experiencing the triumph and tragedy of Rent, to working with Lin-Manuel Miranda on In the Heights and Hamilton, Seller joins us to completely pull back the curtain on the joyous and gut-wrenching process of making new musicals, finding new audiences, and winning a Tony Award — all the while finding himself.

Seller's association with and love for Chicago spans from the summer of 1991 when he was a student at Northwestern University’s high school theatre institute to his pre-Broadway engagements of Sting’s The Last Ship (2014), The Cher Show (2018), and Hamilton’s record-breaking three-year run at CIBC Theatre (2016-2020). 

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