Corey Hawkins's Role in In the Heights Was Meant to Be, and 5 Other Facts About the Star

After graduating Juilliard, Corey began starring in a handful of off-Broadway shows. In 2013, he made his Broadway debut as Tybalt in the revival of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and in 2017, he starred in the Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation alongside Allison Janney and John Benjamin Hickey. "Theatre is where I sort of cut my teeth," he told The Star.