Cricket Brown (she/they) is a theater and film maker based in New York City. She has worked with The Bushwick Starr, Half Straddle, SoHo Rep., Signature Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Oye Group, Nile Harris, Kaneza Schaal, Kit Zauhar, and more. Cricket is currently the associate director of Mercedes, a multi-media piece created by Modesto “Flako” Jimenez that incorporates theater, film, virtual reality, an artifact gallery, and healing room spaces to address dementia and its impact on families. They also recently assistant directed Waiting for Godot at TFANA and Deep Blue Sound at Clubbed Thumb. As an inaugural member of Mercury Store's Emerging Director Lab and a co-founding member of the Brooklyn performance artist collective IDon'tWannaSeeThat?!!?!, Cricket has created and produced many new original works. They are a proud member of the Orchard Project’s 2023-2024 Greenhouse Lab, where they are currently developing their next full-length play, Untitled Nun Play, and are in post-production for their upcoming short film "MAD". Their improvised horror film Circus196977 recently premiered on NoBudge. www.cricketbrown.com