Conrad is Teachers Programme Manager at the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as a theatre director, actor, teacher and independent scholar.
He is a Visiting Lecturer, Module Leader and Tutor at the Performers College, the British American Drama Academy and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he recently achieved a distinction in an MFA in Actor Training and Coaching. As an Acting Teacher, Conrad specialises in acting technique, classical and contemporary theatre, Jewish performance practices, and other performing arts and actor training specialisms, particularly the methods of Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler and Constantin Stanislavsky. He is also an independent scholar, and his current research includes investigating the approaches of Jewish acting practitioners in Europe and America; his book chapter in Stanislavsky and Race (published by Routledge in 2023) in particular focused on the Jewish influences of Stanislavsky-based actor training in 20th century America.

Originally from Glasgow, Conrad attained a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Nottingham before training as an actor at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. After returning to the UK, he became a qualified teacher with a PGCE from the University of Northampton, then taught Mathematics and Drama in secondary education and worked as Head of Drama before leaving teaching to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. Conrad is also a Governor at Elstree Screen Arts Academy: a performing and technical arts focused college for students aged 14 to 19.

Theatre directing credits include: Recollections of an Old City, The Morning After (Upstairs at the Gatehouse/JDAL); Rapunzel (online: live-streamed); The Real Inspector Hound (Harrow Arts Centre); Hands Across the Sea (St Jean’s Theatre, New York); The Pirates of Penzance (Elektra Theatre, New York); Curtains (Nottingham Arts Theatre); His Lordship Entertains, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (The New Theatre). Directing credits in education: As You Like It (Performers College); What’s Possible?, Memory of a Goldfish (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); Tonight at 8.30, Myth-o-logues, Macbeth (St Margaret’s School); Rumours, Much Ado About Nothing, Annie (Immanuel College); The Lazy Elf, The Day the Crayons Quit (Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts, Amersham); Camille and the Sunflowers (Dramavision); The Elysian Fields (Hutchesons’ Grammar School). Directed readings: A Dead Woman on Holiday (Burgh House/Pascal Theatre Company); It Should Happen to a Dog, The Mighty Hunter (JW3/Tsitsit Fringe Festival); Professor Bernhardi (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama); On the Razzle, Hallowe'en, An Absolute Turkey (The Hill Players). As Associate and Assistant Director: The Merchant of Venice for Oliver Lidert (British American DramaAcademy); Friday Night Flop for Simon Friedberg and Elliot Gerner (Moxie Pictures); Theresa for Julia Pascal (Burgh House/Pascal Theatre Company); High School Musical, Macbeth for Matthew Dye (Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts, Amersham); The Little Dog Laughed for Brad Rouse, An Absolute Turkey for Barbara Rubin (American Academy of Dramatic Arts).