| Bonnie Gillespie is an author, producer, and casting director. She specializes in casting SAG indie feature films and has twice been named a Top Film Casting Director in Back Stage West's "Best of Los Angeles" Issue. Founder and producer of the Cricket Feet Casting Actors Showcase and Hollywood Happy Hour, Bonnie's weekly column, The Actors Voice, is available at Showfax.com. Her books include Casting Qs: A Collection of Casting Director Interviews, Self-Management for Actors: Getting Down to (Show) Business, and Acting Qs: Conversations with Working Actors. Bonnie has been interviewed on BBC Breakfast, on UTV-Ireland's Gerry Kelly Goes to Hollywood, on CBC Radio One, on Judy Kerr's Internet series, Acting Is Everything, and for E! gossip column The Answer B!tch. For a more detailed bio, please visit CricketFeet.com. |
| Bonnie's super support team at Cricket Feet includes Keith Johnson and Ryan Basham, who will facilitate some of the SMFA seminar break-out sessions. |
| Keith Johnson is a true jack-of-all-trades. Getting his start in the entertainment industry a little late in life, he spent his formative years in the US Marines where he traveled the world in the infantry, followed by a stint at the University of Wisconsin where he studied astronautical engineering and Japanese. Keith worked as a lifeguard and security guard, a truck driver and a truck assembly-line worker. He also got a degree in criminal justice and then became a computer network infrastructure architect. He's been in Los Angeles since 2001, moving to the city in yet another incarnation of his ever-expanding life. Keith has been pursuing a career in Hollywood as a true hyphenate--actor, writer, casting professional, crew--whatever it takes to move the projects he cares about forward. |
| Ryan Basham is a native of the mountain south where he grew up with the families of Dolly Parton and Johnny and June Carter Cash as neighbors (yes, really). His career began early in high school when he began producing record-breaking cultural festivals in the southeast. His producing career includes several independent films such as The Wraith: Eyes of Judgment (an action feature based on the Australian comic book of the same name), an untitled big-budget documentary for one of America's leading pharmaceutical companies, and Getting Away (a short shot in the high desert of southern California; currently in post production). His production company, The Basham Company, currently has several series and features in various stages of production and development. Ryan also has several years of experience in entertainment and strategic public relations, including a year spent working directly under the chief creative officer of one of the world's top ten PR firms. |
