Karl Hinze is a writer, composer, and playwright in New York City.

His creative pursuits includes writing fiction, musicals, plays, plays-with-music, and anything in-between. He is also an accomplished concert producer and enjoys crafting interdisciplinary music-art-dance-drama collaborations.

Played by an excellent four-piece band, Karl Hinze’s frequently mournful music is lovely.” —The New York Times on 210 Amlent Avenue

His musicals with collaborators have been published by Theatre Now, licensed by Music Theatre International, and reviewed by The New York Times.

Karl holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Stony Brook University, studied playwriting at ESPA, and is a member of the BMI Workshop.

NYC Premieres

• Prophesy
  The Wild Project
• The Exposed Bone Workshop Collective Ensemble Studio…
  The PIT Loft
• Cooking For Two at Sound Bites 5.0
  The Signature Theatre Center
• “Baseball Season Again” at MuseMatch 9.0
  Feinstein’s/54 Below
• “Every Year” at MuseMatch 7.0
  Feinstein’s/54 Below
• “One Day Closer” and “I’ll Make It” at Contemporary Christmas
  The Duplex
• Miss Metcalfe Goes To College at the Prospect Musical Theatre Lab
  The 14th Street Y Theatre
• 210 Amlent Avenue, Official Selection of the NYMF 2015 Next Link Project
  The Signature Theatre Center
• Are They Edible? by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
  La MaMa Puppet Series
• Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Beseiged City for soprano, flute, and piano
  The Juilliard School