Steven Conrad

Steven Conrad born 20 May 1968 is an American screenwriter film producer and director Conrad is the brother of actor Chris Conrad He lives in Chicago Shortly after attending Northwestern at age 19 he sold his first screenplay Wrestling Ernest Hemingway adapted from a short story he had written for a creative writing class Eleven years passed before he tackled his next project Lawrence Melm which he wrote and directed He followed this with The Weather Man which he also produced and The Pursuit of Happyness He wrote directed and edited The Promotion which premiered at South by Southwest in March 2008 and was released by Dimension Films later that year In 2013 he adapted a James Thurber short story for the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty directed by and starring Ben Stiller In 2015 Conrad developed Patriot for Amazon Studios Its pilot led to a full series order and it premiered in its entirety on February 24 2017 In addition to executiveproducing the series he has also written and directed most of the first seasons episodes In 2019 Conrads series Perpetual Grace LTD starring Ben Kingsley and featuring actors from Patriot premiered on Epix In 2021 Conrads stopmotion animated series Ultra City Smiths premiered on AMC In 2026 Conrads black comedy miniseries DTF St Louis premiered on HBO starring Jason Bateman David Harbour and Linda Cardellini