Name Matt Corriel Role Composer | Education Harvard University | |
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Born November 12, 1982 (age 41) ( 1982-11-12 ) Books Chocolate Soup: A Modern Day Fairy Tale, Middle School Madness: Musical | ||
Matthew J. "Matt" Corriel (born November 12, 1982) is an American composer and lyricist working in musical theatre. He is the operations director for the Freshman Arts program at Harvard University, and resident songwriter and drama tutor in Adams House at Harvard.
Corriel was raised in Nanuet, New York. He studied literature at Harvard, graduating in 2005. As a Harvard student, Corriel scored Ex-Rated (2002), an experimental dance performance in Harvard's Loeb Experimental Theater, and a production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.
Corriel composed the music for six musicals: A Christmas Carol (2005), Middle School Madness (2006), Intervention – A Teen Musical Comedy (2007), The Yatesville Tragedy (2007), Chocolate Soup (2008), and Emcee MC's Tales to D.C. Town (2010). Three of these, Middle School Madness, Intervention, and Chocolate Soup have been published by Dramatic Publishing. Both Intervention and Chocolate Soup won the annual Moss Hart Award of the New England Theatre Conference.