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.

copyright 2010 Conrad Cimarra