PHILINE CONRAD is an actress, writer, painter and director. Born in Cologne, she discovered the theater at the studiobühne köln in 2010. After completing her studies in secret services, whistleblowers and Wikileaks, she moved to Berlin in 2012 and played at the Maxim Gorki Theater, at the Hebbel am Ufer and at Heimathafen Neukölln. In 2014 she began writing and went to acting school to study acting, which she finished in 2016. She has been writing plays, radio plays and screenplays since 2017. From 2015 to 2018 she played at various theaters in Cologne (including Theater der Keller, Comedia Theater), her play "Lulla-Bye for a Mother" won the 2019 Literature Prize Nordost and in 2020 her radio play "The Gift" was produced by WDR. In the same year she can be seen on the ARD Lindenstraße and receives the NRW artist grant for freelance artists. In 2021 she received the artist grant from VG Wort, she founded because of the situation of cencelled art and artists the initiative "Art is Life" and shot for the ZDF documentary "All normal men" (director: Oliver Halmburger). In 2022 she produced the radio play “Mental Imprisonment”, which was released in January 2023. Since may 2022 she hosts the Talk series "Free word. Free music.” at Theater am Rand near Berlin. www.philineconrad.com