Brian Easley is a combat-disabled veteran and producer living in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the executive producer of a documentary film about the life and works of Steven Fromholz: a singer-songwriter, actor, activist, river guide and Texas Poet Laureate. Brian co-wrote a screenplay in 2011 with Fromholz called Past Hondo, which the duo began shooting as a film in 2012, but was left unfinished prior to Fromholz' passing in early 2014. Brian is also helping to produce the Shawn Phillips documentary series being made by Alex Wroten and Well Dang! Productions. Brian is a co-founder of Flintlock Pictures, a Louisville, Kentucky based production company created by actor/director/producer John Hensley. Brian is helping to produce a slate of Kentucky-made films, beginning with A Vine Like Kudzu, written and directed by John Hensley. Brian's past projects include several music videos for his D.C. area band, Exit Vehicles, along with two albums and a single. He has acted in a few stage productions across the country over the years, most recently with Wheaton Drama near Chicago, and with Kentucky Shakespeare's Shakespeare With Veterans program in Louisville. Brian is also a published poet; his recent collection of poems, The Bracken Road, came out in 2022. Brian is currently writing a screenplay about Kentucky poet Madison Cawein, that he hopes to film in the coming years. Brian is the vice president of Druther's, based in Louisville. He is a combat-disabled veteran of the Iraq War; a board member with the Austin, Texas-based Three Chords And The Truth, which is a fiscal sponsor of documentaries and projects that highlight undersung Texas cultural contributors; and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Brian earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, a master’s degree in International Security Studies from Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Originally from Bracken, Texas, Brian lives in the Glenview neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky with his wife Catherine, along with their daughter and two sons. more...