Cricket Myers

Cricket Myers is an award-winning sound designer in L.A. who has worked on more than 200 productions in the last decade. A graduate of CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), where she studied with John Gottlieb, Myers has worked in prestigious venues like the Mark Taper Forum and the Ahmanson Theatre, but she has also spent plenty of time tackling productions in venues with 99 seats or less, which is where she feels she has done some of her best work. She recently designed for a show that originated in L.A. (Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) and graduated from a 300-seat space to a 700-seat venue to the 1,300-seat Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway, where it is currently playing. Cricket sat down with Stage Directions a couple hours before curtain on Bengal Tiger’s Broadway opening to talk about her career, her craft and her passion for small, independent productions. These are some video excerpts of that chat.