Bonnie Gillespie
President

Bonnie Gillespie is an author, producer, and casting director. She specializes in casting SAG indie feature films and has been named in Back Stage West‘s “Best of Los Angeles” Issue four times. Founder and producer of the Cricket Feet Casting Actors Showcase, Somebody’s Basement, Your Actor MBA, 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 (co-authored with Blake Robbins). 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 the E! gossip column The Answer B!tch.

Keith Johnson
Vice President, Director of Production

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. He also specializes in cramming as many ridiculous Hollywood clichés into one brief bio as possible.

Ryan Basham
Vice President, Director of Development

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. [email Ryan]

Anthony Hansen
Vice President, Director of Technology

Anthony Hansen is an actor with a strong emphasis on voice acting. He grew up in South Florida where, after exploring other degree options (e.g. physics and computer science), he obtained a BFA in Theatre. He then promptly got a job as a web developer, mostly to avoid having to wait tables. While in Florida, Anthony immersed himself in the improv and voiceover communities before moving to California, mostly to avoid another hurricane season. Since moving to Southern California, Anthony has continued to embrace his technological geek side by way of web programming as he continues to develop his career both on-camera and behind the mic. If you asked him how he viewed himself, he’d respond, “49% actor, 49% geek, 2% other.”

Somebody’s Basement is a web distribution channel founded in 2010 by casting director, author, and producer Bonnie Gillespie; actor, writer, producer Keith Johnson; and producer Ryan Basham. Somebody’s Basement is a grassroots web network that features premiere content developed and collaborated upon by the best of the emerging independent web community. Somebody’s Basement: Where everybody goes to jam.