Cavemen  

BILL MARTIN & MIKE SCHIFF, Executive Producers

Bill Martin & Mike Schiff met in graduate film school at Columbia University. As closet TV comedy fans at a film school, they chose to team up and soon moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television. They first landed at Fox's "In Living Color," where they spent two seasons writing for Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx and Chris Rock. Two more sketch shows followed -- ABC's "She TV" and Fox's "House of Buggin'," starring John Leguizamo. When that show went down, the creators of "She TV," Bonnie and Terry Turner, hired Martin and Schiff on their new sitcom, NBC's "3rd Rock from the Sun." They spent four and a half seasons writing, producing and eventually running that Emmy-winning series before leaving to create their own show, "Grounded for Life," which ran for five seasons on Fox and the WB. Martin and Schiff each live in Los Angeles with their respective wives and three children.

Will Speck grew up in New York and Shaker Heights, Ohio. Josh Gordon grew up in Berkley, California and Los Angeles. They met in the film program at NYU and began working together as a writing and co-directing team, making several award-winning short films, including "Culture," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Greg Germann and Florence Stanley, which was nominated for an Academy Award. When they weren't working on studio and TV script assignments, they began directing commercials, first at Ridley and Tony Scott's RSA Productions, and then for the company Furlined. Over the last seven years, Speck/Gordon have directed hundreds of commercials and won numerous awards in the United States and Europe for clients like Levis, Pepsi, Visa, Samsung and GEICO, including the popular "Cavemen" campaign. In 2007 they directed their first feature film, the Will Ferrell ice skating comedy, "Blades of Glory."

With more than a dozen years' experience as a manager, Daniel Rappaport is a founding partner of Management 360. Rappaport focuses a great deal of his expertise in the handling of directors, including McG ("Charlie's Angels"), Jim Mangold ("Walk the Line"), Phil Morrison ("Junebug"), Tom Dey ("Failure to Launch"), F. Gary Gray ("Italian Job," "The Negotiator"), Will Speck & Josh Gordon ("Blades of Glory") and Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden ("Half Nelson"). Rappaport recently served as executive producer of Phil Morrison's award-winning film, "Junebug." He also produced Mike Judge's feature film debut, "Office Space." On television he served as executive producer for McG's action series, "Fastlane," and as co-producer of "King of the Hill." After beginning his entertainment career as an assistant at ICM, he served as director of development for Sandollar Productions in the wake of such hits as "Father of the Bride." Rappaport earned his undergraduate degree in social sciences from U.C. Berkeley.

Guymon Casady is a manager, producer and founding partner of Management 360. As a producer, he helped obtain the "Cavemen" rights from GEICO and is now an executive producer on the series. He is also an executive producer on the HBO series "Game of Thrones," which is being developed by David Benioff and Dan Weiss from the bestselling series of books and on Michael Tolkin's original series based on a motorcycle gang resembling the Hell's Angels. In film Casady is producing the upcoming comedy "Bachelor #2," starring Kate Hudson and Dane Cook for Lionsgate, and developing "The Infiltrator" at Warner Bros., to which Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star. He was formerly a manager and producer at Industry Entertainment, where he was an executive producer on the ABC comedy "Hope & Faith." Casady began his entertainment career in the motion picture talent department at CAA after earning a B.A. in European history and art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Joe Lawson grew up in Tennessee and attended Wake Forest University. "Cavemen," based on the popular TV commercials he wrote and created for GEICO Auto Insurance, is his first TV show. He recently chose to abandon his enormously successful advertising career and charming Virginia home to move to Los Angeles with his wife, Sheri, and their daughter, Harper. It's the most optimistic thing he's ever done.