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Karl Shiels

Karl’s work at the Abbey Theatre includes Terminus, The Comedy of Errors, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Terminus (Edinburgh International Festival), Romeo and Juliet, Howie the Rookie, Beauty in a Broken Place, Henry IV Part I, Barbaric Comedies, At Swim-Two-Birds and Twenty Grand. Other theatre credits include The Death of Harry Leon (Smock Alley), Hue and Cry (Bewleys Café, Oran Mor, Glasgow),The Pride of Parnell Street (Fishamble/international tour), Howie the Rookie (international tour), Oedipus Loves You (international tour), Sleeping Beauty (Helix), The Shadow of a Gunman (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Duck (Royal Court), Salomé (Gate Theatre), Greek, Quartet, Muller’s Medea, Obituary, Early Morning, This Lime Tree Bower, The Massacre @ Paris, Fully Recovered, The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi (Project Arts Centre), Hamlet, Venus and Adonis (Samuel Beckett Centre) and Comedians (Dublin Theatre Festival) for which Karl won Best Actor Award, Dublin Theatre Festival 1999. Karl is Artistic Director of Semper Fi (Ireland) where he directed Adrenalin, God’s Grace, Ladies and Gents, Ten, Slaughter, Breakfast with Versace, Within 24 Hours, Another 24 Hours, Within 24 Hours of Dance, Conversation with a Cupboard Man and Butterflies. He also directed The Dark Room (Gentle Giant), Topdog/Underdog, Three Tall Women (Tall Tales), Drapes, Eggshell, Bernard Opens Up (Fishamble), Gargarin Way (Island), The Pitchfork Disney and Fallen (Raw Image). Film and television credits include At Death’s Door, Savage, Eden, W.C., Prosperity, Batman Begins, Intermission, Spin the Bottle, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Veronica Guerin, Mystics, Clubbing, Freaky Deaky 10/1, Meeting Che Guevera and the Man from Maybury Hill, Daybreak, Capital Letters (Best Actor IFTA nomination 2002),Tudors, Doctors, Attachments, Getting Close, Waiting for Dublin, Virtues of a Sinner, The Anarchic Hand Affair, The Clinic, Private Lives, Any Time Now, On Home Ground and Camera Café.


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  • Karl Shiels and Michael McElhatton in rehearsal for Macbeth by William Shakespeare, directed by Jimmy Fay. Photo by Ros Kavanagh.
  • Kate Brennan, Karl Shiels, Andrea Irvine - Terminus - PEACOCK stage. Picture by Ros Kavanagh
  • Karl Shiels, Andrea Irvine, Kate Brennan - Terminus - PEACOCK stage. Picture by Ros Kavanagh
  • Andrea Irvine, Kate Brennan and Karl Shiels - Terminus - PEACOCK stage. Picture by Ros Kavanagh

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