Konrad Aderer is an Emmy and Telly Award-winning filmmaker based in New York. He is currently in post-production for They Took My Father Too, a film adaptation of Japanese-language American literature.

Konrad’s independent documentaries have focused on resistance arising in immigrant communities targeted for detention and deportation. His feature Enemy Alien documented the fight to free a Palestinian immigration detainee, garnering a Courage in Media Award from Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). His documentary Resistance at Tule Lake was broadcast nationally on PBS. His short documentary The Dream Ride followed out-of-status Asian American youth on a 1,700-mile bicycle campaign for immigrant justice. He has freelanced for the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the United Nations, and USAID.

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Konrad worked as a professional stage and film actor for over a decade, appearing in principal roles in independent films including the Independent Spirit Award-nominated feature Ignatz and Lotte. He played many classical roles Off Broadway and in regional theatres, including Ariviragus in Cymbeline (Pearl Theater, NY) and Don Armado in Love's Labour's Lost (Peterborough Players, NH), and appeared with Randal Duk Kim in the Drama Desk-nominated revival of A Majority of One. Konrad received his BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, training at the Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg studios. He holds a Master's in Sociology from Brooklyn College.