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Craig Carnelia has been teaching musical theater acting classes at studios owned by Ripley-Grier for 18 years, drawing his students mostly from the Broadway community for his 20 hours of classroom work each week. He also travels extensively to universities around the country to teach master classes and enjoys long, ongoing relationships with CCM and Northwestern.
As a songwriter in the theater, he has had four shows produced on Broadway. Working with composer Marvin Hamlisch, he wrote lyrics for Sweet Smell of Success and Imaginary Friends. Hamlisch and Carnelia received Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations for their score for Sweet Smell of Success and Carnelia received a Drama Desk nomination for his lyrics for Imaginary Friends. As both composer and lyricist, Craig wrote the score for Is There Life After High School? and contributed four songs to Studs Terkel’s Working for which he received his first Tony nomination.
Recent highlights include the publication of an “Expanded Edition” of The Craig Carnelia Songbook from Hal Leonard, the premiere of a new compilation of the composer’s work, Life On Earth, a beautiful recording of Flight on Sutton Foster’s debut CD Wish, and marriage to longtime partner, Lisa Brescia. |
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