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Conrad
Cimarra
is an actor, screenwriter, director, and also has produced
several short films. Among them, featuring his original music,
the animated Never Like This, screened at the
Davis
Film Festival in Davis, CA. His other films include Indivisible,
Heat Exchange, and Rejectamenta,
in which Conrad played an obsessed man who tries to save the
environment by hoarding garbage in his apartment. His latest
work is called The Time Addict, a story about a
man who becomes addicted to time travel.
Conrad has appeared
in several television commercials and can be seen in 5 Card
Productions’ The Debut, directed by Gene
Cajayon. His other film acting credits include Anita Weiner's The
Rhumba Lesson, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet
(a short adaptation which also starred a pre-"Prison
Break" star Wentworth Miller), and as Peter in Anomaly Film's Outcasts. He has performed
several voices for Dawn Westlake's animated short, Dottie:
The Little Girl with the Big Voice, and was
assassinated on Daniel MacCannell's Henry X. He
can also be seen briefly as Rudy in The Black Eyed Peas' music
video "Bebot: Generation One".
Conrad’s deep
artistic roots stem from the theatre. He is a collective
emeritus of the Tony Award-winning political theatre The
San Francisco Mime Troupe in which he served as set
designer, painter, actor, writer, director, and teacher. He
attended the American Conservatory Theatre and has also
worked with other noted San Francisco Bay Area theatre
companies such as San Jose Stage Company,
San Jose
Repertory, and TheatreWorks. His favorite classical
roles include Caliban in The Tempest, Malcolm in
Macbeth, Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream,
and Costard in Love's Labour's Lost. As a
performer, Conrad has toured the continental United States,
Alaska, Russia, Germany, and Japan.
In Los Angeles, he
acted with critically acclaimed theatre companies including The
Greenway Court Theatre, Circle X Theatre, and wowed
audiences when he redefined Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet,
in which he garnered critical praises from The Los Angeles
Times, The L.A. Weekly, and Backstage West.
He brought up the issues of diversity and racism in Aspects
(written by Colin Cox) - a nine-character, one-person play
that toured for several years across America.
Conrad was the
founder and editor of The Skin, an online zine about
American diversity, and is a standing member of The Screen
Actors' Guild, Actors' Equity Association,
AFTRA, FilmArts Foundation, and
Scary Cow Productions.
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