Biography - Karl is Artistic Director of Irish company Semper Fi and has directed many projects for them including Ladies and Gentsfor the Dublin Festival (Fringe Festival Sexiest Show Award) which won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh (2004) and the 2005 Dublin Fringe Festivals best selling show Adrenalin. He won the best Actor Award at the Dublin Theatre festival for his role in Comedians in 1999. Extensive acting work for the Abbey includes Beauty in a Broken Place, At Swim -Two Birds, The Barbaric Comedies and Henry IV (Part One). Karl appeared as Mark in Duck, directed by Max Stafford Clarke for Out Of Joint and The Royal Court, in the Peacock Theatre, the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court and on tour. Other theatre work includes The Shadow of a Gunman (Lyric, Belfast) The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi (Loose Canon), This Lime Tree Bower, the acclaimed Howie the Rookie (Bush Theatre and international tour and the Peacock Theatre),Hamlet, Oedipus Loves You (Pan Pan) and more recently Sleeping Beauty (Helix Theatre) and the remounted production of Howie The Rookie directed by Jimmy Fay at the Peacock Theatre. Karl's television work includes The Clinic (RTE), Doctors (BBC), Any Time Now (BBCNI), Attachments (BBC2) and On Home Ground(RTE). Film work includes Get Rich or Die Trying (Directed by Jim Sheridan), Batman Begins, Veronica Guerin, Intermission, Mystics and Capital Letters for which he was nominated for an IFTA for Best Actor in 2004. Karl also appeared as Che Guevara opposite John Hurt in the award winning short Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill. Karl recently toured Canada in Oedipus Loves Youwith Pan Pan Theatre Co and recently completed filming the role of Victor in Prosperity a new TV mini-series written by Mark O'Halloran and directed by Lenny Abrahamson for Element TV/RTE 2. He will soon begin shooting the role of Breffini in Eden the feature film based on the play of the same name by Eugene O'Brien, directed by Declan Recks for Samson Films.