Craig Carnelia

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Craig Carnelia is an American musical theater composer and singer best known for his collaboration on Working.

Carnelia grew up in Floral Park, New York. He was exposed to Broadway at the age of fourteen. Inspired by the Richard Rodgers musical No Strings, he would go on to pursue a career in acting. He landed the role of The Boy in off-Broadway's legendary The Fantasticks. After a short stint in the production, Carnelia pursued songwriting and, later, musical theatre composition.

Carnelia's songs were heard with the work of other writers in the conceptual revue Working. From there he graduated to a full score, writing both lyrics and music for the short-lived Broadway musical Is there life after high school?, which is still performed in stock, amateur, and regional theatres, and Three Postcards, with a book by Craig Lucas, which was staged off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in 1987 and revived by Circle in the Square Downtown in 1994. His most high-profile show to date, Sweet Smell of Success, teamed him with composer Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line).