Cricket Myers is a 2008/2009 Ovation Award Nominee for 3 Sound Design - Large Theatre Awards for her work in BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO and THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre, and MARY’S WEDDING at the Colony Theatre. She is also an Ovation Award Nominee for Sound Design - Intimate Theatre for her work in BATTLE HYMN at Circle X Theatre Company. She was previously nominated for her work in THE BACCHAE at Celebration Theatre, TRYING at the Colony Theatre, DARK PLAY OR STORIES FOR BOYS at The Theatre @ Boston Court, NORMAN’S ARK at the John Anson Ford theatre, EMERGENCY at Geffen Playhouse, and PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE at the Rubicon Theatre Company.
As an Ovation Award Nominee, LA Stage asked Cricket the following questions:
What was the moment that first inspired you to pursue working in the theatre?
I don’t know that there was one defining moment that made me pursue a job in theater. I remember my first production ever, I was a ferret in Toad of Toad Hall. I fell in love with energy and passion in theater then, (I was 14) and by the time I got to college, I knew that although I enjoyed physics (my original major) I LOVED theater, and that I needed to do what I loved. I didn’t find sound design til later, but I never looked back.
What do you feel made the production you were nominated for particularly successful, either overall or for you specifically?
What makes any production sucessful for me is collaboration. When everyone on the team, from the actors to the director to the designers, we all have the same vision and the same goals for the project. We all work together to create that vision, and we end up with a really unified and beautiful project.
What project or projects are you currently working on?
bobrauschenbergamerica with SpyAnts, at [Inside] the Ford, Cousin Bette with Anteaus, Celadine with the Colony, A New Play at the Kirk Douglas, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at the Mark Taper Forum….
What do you love most about theatre in Los Angeles?
The variety, the energy, the community.
What’s your dream project?
Not sure I have a specific dream project. I look forward to working with people I have great chemistry with, people that I collaborate well with. There are many many people in the LA community that I just adore working with. But I also look forward to productions with new theaters and new people, that make me look at a script in a new and different way, that challenge me to think bigger, and use my skills in a new way.
Biography: CRICKET S. MYERS (Sound Designer) Off-Broadway: Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). Regional: School of Night, Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum); Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo , The Little Dog Laughed , Two Unrelated Plays, Come Back Little Sheba (Kirk Douglas Theater); Some Girl(s) and Emergency (Geffen Playhouse); Crowns, Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse); Marvelous Wonderettes (Laguna Playhouse); Crowns (Ebony Rep Theater); Picasso at the Lapin (Rubicon Theater). Selected LA: Life Could be a Dream (Hudson Theater); dark play or stories for boys (Boston Court); Norman’s Ark (Ford Amphitheater); Battle Hymn (Circle X); Bacchae, Stupid Kids (Celebration Theater); Better Angels, Mary’s Wedding, Master Harold and the boys, Trying (Colony Theater); He Asked For It (Eleven Eleven Productions); Hunter Gatherers, Impending Rupture of the Belly, Back of the Throat (Furious Theater); Home Siege Home (Ghost Road); 1776, Leading Ladies, Sherlocks Last Case (Actor’s Co-op). www.cricketsmyers.com
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