Breaking News: Mandy Gonzalez Heads to HAMILTON for September Start & Renée Elise Goldsberry Sets Departure

Mandy Gonzalez, who created the role of "Nina Rosario" in the Tony Award-winning musical IN THE HEIGHTS and can currently be seen in the hit TV shows "Madam Secretary" and "Quantico," will return to Broadway on Tuesday, September 6 as the brilliant and beautiful Angelica Schuyler in the 11-time Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton.

Gonzalez succeeds Renée Elise Goldsberry who won the 2016 Tony Award for the role. Goldsberry will play her final performance on Saturday evening,September 3. She is currently shooting the title role in the film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for HBO followed by a regular role in the new Netflix series "Altered Carbon."

A Drama Desk and OBIE Award-winning actress, Mandy Gonzalez possesses one of the most powerful and versatile contemporary voices of our time. Perhaps best known for her emotional portrayal of Nina Rosario in the original cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning hit musical In the Heights, Gonzalez also starred as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked. Most recently, Mandy has recurred on the hit Television shows "Madam Secretary" (Lucy Knox) and "Quantico" (Agent Susan Combs). Other Broadway roles include Princess Amneris in Aida; Lennon; and Sarah in the original cast of Dance of the Vampires. Other Television credits include guest appearances on "Doubt," "The Good Wife," "White Collar," and "666 Park Avenue." Film credits include Viral, Over/Under, After, Man on a Ledge, and Across the Universe. Mandy has performed with prestigious symphonies across the country and around the world, and is currently working on her first solo CD, set to release in 2017.

With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, music direction/orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. The musical won eleven 2016 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Score, Book of a Musical, Direction of a Musical, Choreography and Orchestrations. Mr. Miranda received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Hamilton.

HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War, and was the new nation's first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B and Broadway, Hamilton is the story of America then, told by America now.

The musical is produced by Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs, Jill Furman and The Public Theater.

The Hamilton Original Broadway Cast Recording - recipient of the 2016 Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album and a regular on numerous Billboard top 10 lists - is available everywhere nationwide.

HAMILTON: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter's book about the making of the musical, is on sale and has been a selection on The New York Times Best Seller List.

The musical celebrated its 1st anniversary on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on August 6. A touring production begins a 21-week run in San Francisco in March 2017, followed by a 21-week engagement in Los Angeles. A London production will be mounted, also in 2017.