Andy Karl

Andy Karl is an Olivier Award winning American stage, TV, and film actor. He moved to New York City at a young age to pursue acting. On television, Karl is perhaps most well-known for his role as Sgt. Mike Dodds in Season 17 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). Karl's wide variety of stage roles include Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman the Musical, Kyle the UPS Guy in Legally Blonde The Musical, Tommy DeVito in Jersey Boys, Rocky Balboa in Rocky The Musical (Tony nomination), Bruce Granit in On The Twentieth Century (Tony nomination), and Phil Connors in Groundhog Day (Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination). Other theatre includes Wicked, 9 to 5, The Wedding Singer, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Altar Boyz. Karl met his wife Orfeh while they were both appearing in Saturday Night Fever on Broadway, and the couple married in 2001. They have appeared on stage together many times including the popular Legally Blonde: The Musical (2007). They made their American Songbook concert debut at Lincoln Center in 2016, and in 2017 released an album of their acclaimed show "Legally Bound - Live at Feinstein's/54 Below". Karl and Orfeh live in Manhattan, New York City with their rescue dogs.