Playwright and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda is using his Broadway career to recognize immigrants' contributions to the American society.

Miranda, who won a Tony Award for 2008's "In the Heights," is currently making noise for his new play "Hamilton," Fox News Latino reported. The hip-hop inspired musical is based on founding father and immigrant Alexander Hamilton's biography penned by Ron Chernow.

"The things that ('Hamilton's' characters) fight about are the things that people are fighting about on MSNBC or Fox - your choice - and that actually gives me hope," Miranda said, as quoted by Fox News Latino. "It's just who we are as Americans, and we are going to continue to debate what this country will be."

Miranda, 35, said that his plays, especially "Hamilton," highlight how immigrants started the U.S., which is timely with the current anti-immigrant rhetoric rampant in the country's 2016 presidential race, the news outlet noted.

"It comes around every couple of years," Miranda, who is of Puerto Rican descent, said of the anti-immigrant remarks mostly led by GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, as quoted by Fox News Latino. "With 'Heights' it was a reminder that immigrants build small businesses here and immigrants are the engine of America. With 'Hamilton' it's a nice reminder that our greatest military commander was French, the creator of our financial system was from Nevis and the guy who organized our armies and taught us to march in formation was a gay Prussian named Friedrich von Steuben."

At this year's Advertising Week in New York City, Miranda said that "as long as Donald Trump is out there," he will be the voice saying, "We've always been here. We make our country better," Fox News Latino reported.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Genius Grant' Award

The MacArthur Fellows Program, which is a part of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, recently awarded the "Genius Grant" to Miranda and 23 other people, Time wrote.

According to Time, the "Genius Grant" bestows unrestricted $625,000 fellowships over the course of five years to talented individuals who have displayed extraordinary creativity and commitment with their creative endeavors.

"We try to reach people who have shown evidence of exceptional creativity but show the potential for more in the future, to give individuals the freedom to take some risks, to enable them to do new and exciting things," said Cecilia A. Conrad, the foundation's managing director, as quoted by The New York Times.

Miranda said that he would donate some of the money to places that have "fed" his soul, such as Graham Windham, founded in 1806 by Hamilton's wife, Elizabeth, to assist needy children and families; and the Mariposa Center, which aids girls in the Dominican Republic, the news outlet noted.