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Karl Gajdusek is an American screenwriter, producer, and playwright.

Karl Gajdusek was born July 30, 1968 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was the co-creator of the TV series Last Resort with Shawn Ryan. They were both also Executive Producers for the series. Gajdusek also wrote for the series Dead Like Me and wrote the film Trespass (2011). He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2013 Tom Cruise movie, Oblivion. His screenplays for The Last Days of American Crime and November Man are in production.

Film work
Gajdusek

Television work
In the midst of growing a career as a screenwriter, Gajdusek landed his first job in television as a Story Editor on the second season of the Showtime series Dead Like Me. For Dead Like Me Gajdusek wrote on four episodes: "Haunted", "Death Defying", "Rites of Passage", and "The Shallow End." After the cancelation of the series, Gajdusek returned to screenwriting until he paired with Shawn Ryan in 2011 to co-create the ABC television series Last Resort which ran on ABC for a season in 2012.

Filmography

 * Trespass (2011) (written by)
 * The Last Days of American Crime (2013) (screenplay)
 * Oblivion (2013) (screenplay)
 * November Man (2014) (screenplay)

Playwriting Career
Gajdusek wrote...

List of Plays

 * ''Waco, Texas, Mon Amour"
 * Other Play