Conrad Kemp

Conrad Kemp is a writer and actor originally from Johannesburg, South Africa. He’s got a law and English literature degree from Stellenbosch, an acting diploma from the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland, and an MA in Creative Writing from Cape Town. He’s published a poem, a short story and some flash fiction in the UK and South Africa, written very occasionally for newspapers and academic journals, and more often for film and television, including the documentaries Chasing the Sun (2020) and the Emmy-nominated Two Sides (2023). He’s also written for theatre in Ireland, South Africa and Norway.

He’s acted on the West End, London, and Broadway, New York, as well as at the world-renowned Market Theatre in Johannesburg. In film, he’s performed across from Forest Whitaker, Orlando Bloom, Toby Jones, Sienna Miller, Imelda Staunton, Viola Davis, and Sam Rockwell.

He lives with his wife, daughter, and mom in Plettenberg Bay.

Out of the Dead Lands is his first book.