Kirk German is a third-generation Austinite who has been performing since the age of nine, chiefly in central Texas and central Vermont.  In Austin, he has been seen in Guys and Dolls, Floyd Collins, and My Favorite Year (Zilker Theatre Productions), Damn Yankees and Kiss Me Kate (Austin Playhouse), Big River and The Music Man (TexArts at the Paramount), Cosi Fan Tutte (Austin Lyric Opera), Batboy: The Musical (Arts on Real), Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (Different Stages), Hello Muddah / Hello Fadduh at the J (2006 B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Cast), and The Page and the Caterpillar (2007 B. Iden Payne nomination) with Second Youth Family Theatre.  In February 2007, he had the opportunity to play his dream role, Georg Nowack, in Temple Civic Theatre’s production of She Loves Me. 

Kirk has written, directed, and/or performed in eight original shows as part of Austin Script Works' & Hyde Park Theatre's Frontera Fest, each of them acknowledged as a "Best Of" selection. He has directed and co-directed several plays and musicals showcasing the acting talent of local youth, including You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, James and the Giant Peach (2005 B. Iden Payne nomination), West Side Story, and most recently, Boeing-Boeing. From 1997-2002, Kirk lived in Vermont where he earned a BA cum laude in theatre, literature, and art history from Middlebury College. While there, he wrote, directed, and stage managed over a dozen shows and played leading roles in productions of The Fantasticks, Love Letters, Ubu Roi, and Bye-Bye Birdie, among others.  

In 2008 and 2009, Kirk participated in the development of several original productions. He performed in DA!’s Just Say DA!: Direct Object as well as Relative Space, Lisa del Rosario’s original movement installation, and Sharon Sparlin’s award-nominated play The E-Word for Refraction Arts; he wrote and co-directed Heron and Crane; he co-directed Steph Denson's 57 Boyfriends, he directed the debut of Words to the Wise by his student Carl Mamula, and he directed Joe Hartman's one-man show Overwhelming Underdogs, which earned him a B. Iden Payne nomination as Best Director of a Comedy. Most significantly, November of 2009 saw the world premiere of Kirk's 10-years-in-the-making three-act sit-com extravaganza Leave it to Beverly, which he also directed.

2010 has already kept Kirk busy with a variety of projects, including co-directing Rhonda Kulhanek's The Mommy Confession, performing in Tongue and Groove Theeatre's adaptation of The Red Balloon at The Long Center, and helping to curate Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, which saw the debut of his ten-minute play Splash Zone. In the summer of 2010, Kirk will be returning to his favorite theatre, The Zilker Hillside, to play Rooster in Annie.

For the last eight years, Kirk has made a happy home for himself in his hometown. In addition to his stage work, he teaches English and Fine Arts at Huntington-Surrey High School while moonlighting as a rock-and-roller in Austin's favorite TV theme song band, The Greatest American Heroes, for which he is the lead singer (and sometimes percussionist). He has two neurotic but friendly cats, Daphne and Zelda, who keep him endlessly fascinated.