KARL (he/him) is a composer, percussionist, and performance artist based in New York City, where he is the Associate Dramaturg at the Metropolitan Opera, helping to shape commissions and new works from their inceptions to their premieres. He is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Fifth Wall Performing Arts with Grey Grant, and has worked with artists and companies including Radiolab, Meredith Monk, Carnegie Hall, Nico Muhly, Sō Percussion, Elliot Cole, Alkemie Early Music, Missy Mazzoli, Contemporaneous, New Music Detroit, Anthony Davis, Christopher Rountree, Joyce DiDonato, Metropolis Ensemble, Jeanine Tesori, and the Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors’ Lab. KARL is a teaching artist in incarcerated communities with the non-profit Musicambia and is also the inventor of the Snaxophone, an electric Pringles can instrument. He hosts annual Fluxus-inspired parties and his work has been performed by bell towers, rock bands, orchestras, arcade machines, and people dressed in squirrel costumes, among others.