Cricket Myers is a Los Angeles-based sound designer. In 2011, she received a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination for her design of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.

Myers has received 20 Ovation Awards nominations since 2007, including Bent, directed by Moises Kaufman; Endgame, directed by Alan Mandel; and Play Dead, directed by Teller. In 2018, she received the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Ruth Morley Design Award. StageSceneLA has named her Sound Designer of the Year multiple times and in 2015, she won the LADCC Kinetic Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Design. Earlier, Myers was a finalist for the 2005 TCG/NEA Career Development Grant, and in 2003 won the USITT Young Designers Clear-Com Award for sound design.

She serves on the Ovation Rules Committee, is a founding board member and West Coast rep of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association, and was elected to the Western Board of United Scenic Artists Local 829 in 2017. She also serves as the Western trustee to the Local Union Executive Board of USA.

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