Dirty Dancing

New York: NT's Happy Days starring Fiona Shaw and directed by Deborah Warner (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Haunted by Edna O'Brien; Terra Haute by Edmond White; The Seagull with Kristin Scott Thomas and Carey Mulligan; All My Sons directed by Simon McBurney with Katie Holmes; American Buffalo; Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (six Tony Award nominations, NY Critics' Award for Best Foreign Play and Olivier Award for Best Play).

London: Backbeat directed by David Leveaux; Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson directed by Max Stafford Clark; Triptych by Edna O'Brien; Memory directed by Terry Hands; The Line directed by Mathew Lloyd and Jenufa directed by Irina Brown, both written by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Arcola); Ring Round The Moon directed by Sean Mathias (Playhouse); Dirty Dancing (Aldwych); the spectacular multimedia production, Sinatra at the London Palladium, directed by David Leveaux with choreography by Stephen Mear; And Then There Were None with Tara Fitzgerald (Gielgud); the London and Sydney production of Dance of Death with Sir Ian McKellen, Frances de la Tour and Owen Teale; Bea Arthur (Savoy); Auntie and Me, with Alan Davies and Margaret Tyzack (Wyndham's); Michael Moore, Live! (Roundhouse); the West End revival of Noel Coward's Semi Monde; Kevin Elyot's Mouth to Mouth with Lindsay Duncan and Michael Maloney (Albery); David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow with Mark Strong, Patrick Marber and Kimberly Williams; Drummers by Simon Bennet and Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill (winner of the Evening Standard Award as 'Most Promising Newcomer') both directed by Max Stafford- Clark for Out of Joint; Macbeth with Rufus Sewell (Queen's); A Swell Party a celebration of Cole Porter (Vaudeville); Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good (nominated for six Tony Awards and received the Olivier Award for Best Play and the New York Critics' Award for Best Foreign Play); Hysteria (Olivier Award for Best Comedy), and an adaptation of Sue Townsend's novel The Queen and I which was Out of Joint's inaugural production.

Karl continues to serve on the board of Out of Joint, the UK leading producer of new writing for the theatre.

Karl also served as a director of Renaissance Film Company. He continues to act as an independent film producer; the most recently released project with David Parfitt, his colleague from Renaissance for Trademark Films, is A Bunch of Amateurs by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman featuring Derek Jacobi, Imelda Staunton, Samantha Bond and Burt Reynolds. My Week With Marilyn featuring Michelle Williams, Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh will be released this autumn.