Chris Ballinger a.k.a. HybridTheRapper is a Kentucky-based music writer, performer, and producer. He has released more than 30 albums of original music, spanning genres from hip hop and rock to country and Southern soulful singing.
Chris Easterly is a screenwriter and independent filmmaker based in Kentucky and Los Angeles. A graduate of the prestigious Warner Brothers Television Writers Workshop, Easterly has written for the dramas Past Life on FOX and Unnatural History on Cartoon Network, and adapted Beverly Lewis’s New York Times bestselling novel The Shunning for the Hallmark Channel. He wrote, produced, and directed the micro-budget independent film Relict in 2017.
Ballinger and Easterly, both from Frankfort, Kentucky, have partnered to produce Method to the Madness.