Cricket Leigh

Cricket Leigh grew up in Kalamazoo, MI, moving to Chicago at 16 to attend The Chicago Academy for the Arts. Cricket received her BFA w/ honors from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, studying at The Stella Adler Conservatory & The Experimental Theatre Wing (Amsterdam, Netherlands). After moving to Los Angeles, Cricket studied with The Groundlings, where she found a knack for inventing characters that led her to write, produce & perform in her first play, a one-woman show called Constantly Distracted. Cricket is an accomplished Voice-Over artist, whose work includes numerous Commercials, Games, & Animation, including voicing "Mai" in Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender. On-camera, Cricket performed in numerous commercials, and starred in the Indie cult film, The Boys & Girls Guide To Getting Down, streaming now. Cricket attends dozens of Anime-Fests and Comic-Cons throughout the U.S. meeting fans and signing autographs for her work in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Cricket still performs onstage and is currently writing a one-person show about a school shooting in a small town, for which she received an Arts Council Grant to produce in Spring, 2026.