VIDEO: A Backstage Q&A Session With HAMILTON's Renee Elise Goldsberry

While it's been quite a year and a half for first-time Tony nominee Renee Elise Goldsberry, who kills it eight times a week as the protective and selfless sister Angelica Schuyler in Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash hit HAMILTON, Broadway fame hasn't exactly come overnight for this in-demand actor.

After making her Broadway debut as a replacement Nala in THE LION KING, Goldsberry earned raves for her Delacorte Theater performance as Silvia in the musical version of Shakespeare's TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. From there she originated the role of Nettie in THE COLOR PURPLE and was the last to play Mimi in the Broadway production of RENT.

Before HAMILTON, the highest-profile display of her formidable talents was her star turn in the 2013 Encores! Off-Center production of Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford's I'M GETTING MY ACT TOGETHER AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD.

The rising star recently held a livestreamed Facebook Q&A session for her fans from her Richard Rodgers Theatre dressing room, giving an inside look at the whirlwind experience.

HAMILTON opened on August 6, 2016 at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre. The cast of Hamilton is comprised of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Daveed Diggs (Marquis De Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler), Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Rory O'Malley (King George), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler, Maria Reynolds), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton alternate), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan, James Madison), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens, PhilipHamilton) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton).

With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamiltonis based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander 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, as told by America now.