Manzano has won 15 Emmys for television script writing. Her forthcoming novel, Coming Up Cuban, will be released by Scholastic in August. Manzano also penned the young adult novel The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and the memoir Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx. Manzano has written several children’s books, including A World Together, A Box Full of Kittens, Miracle on 133rd Street and No Dogs Allowed!, which was made into a children’s musical. Movie credits include Deathwish, Follow That Bird and Elmo in Grouchland. Performances on the New York stage include the critically acclaimed theater pieces The Vagina Monologues, The Exonerated and Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Within a year, Manzano joined the PBS children's show Sesame Street and eventually began writing scripts for the series. She went to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on scholarship and in her junior year, came to New York to star in the original production of the off-Broadway show Godspell. Manzano, a first-generation American of Latino descent, was raised in the South Bronx and graduated from the High School of Performing Arts.
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