Meet Jeff & Andy
Mister & Mischief create fun-forward interactive experiences designed to delight audiences and turn strangers into pals. Their award-winning work has been produced for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, Indiecade, Denver Film Festival, Noah's Ark at the Skirball Cultural Center, and the Warehouse Theatre.
Mister & Mischief (a.k.a. Jeff and Andy Crocker) are a husband-and-wife creative team based in Los Angeles. Together, they create live experiences designed to delight audiences and turn strangers into pals. Best known for their absurdist puzzle-play Escape from Godot and their interactive pirate radio documentary 40 Watts From Nowhere, Andy and Jeff bring their brand of fun-forward storytelling to genres of all kinds.
Their award-winning immersive work has been produced for the La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls Festival, Indiecade, Denver Film Festival, Noah's Ark at the Skirball Cultural Center, and the Warehouse Theatre.
Outside of Mister & Mischief, Jeff and Andy work independently in themed entertainment, developing experiences for clients including Universal Studios, Cedar Fair, The Bezark Company, The Hettema Group, Thinkwell and Walt Disney Imagineering.
Mixing games, theater, and comedy into playful, participatory events, Andy and Jeff are passionate about increasing the visibility of experiential design and audience-empowering art wherever they go.
Meet Jeff Crocker
When not writing and producing immersive theater, Jeff is a creative producer for themed entertainment, encompassing theme parks, museums, traveling exhibits, and experiential installations. Currently he works with The Hettema Group, helping design thrilling and unique guest experiences all around the world.
Previously, as a project manager at Cinnabar, Jeff oversaw the design, build, and installation of the inaugural exhibits for the National Museum of Military Vehicles in Dubois, Wyoming. He also managed projects for Universal Studios Hollywood, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Orange Coast College Community Planetarium, Denver Art Museum, GES, and Wallis Annenberg PetSpace. The variety of work he helped produce included custom bronze sculptures, sculptural fiberglass shells for animatronics, traveling museum exhibitions, custom animal enclosures, mechanical pendulum pin mechanisms, and so much more.
Before that, Jeff helped produce animated media for the projection design team for Once Upon a Time, the award-winning mapped projection show at Tokyo Disneyland. He followed that up with the ground-breaking nighttime fireworks spectacular, Disneyland Forever, in Anaheim, California, for Disneyland’s 60th anniversary celebration.
Jeff also worked in the fast-paced and unpredictable world of film and TV production, with a focus on special visual effects, both practical and digital. Jeff held the position of Visual Effects Producer for primetime CBS-TV series CSI: NY for four seasons. His credits also include make-up effects fabrication with AFX (Cabin in the Woods), Legacy Effects (Real Steel, Cowboys and Aliens), and legendary Stan Winston Studios (Terminator: Salvation, G.I. Joe, Capital One).
A creative professional with a great sense of humor, Jeff loves to tell stories in a dynamic visual medium, and immersive theater has emerged as a wonderful way to explore playful and participatory storytelling.
Meet Andy Crocker
Andy Crocker is a live experience designer and director known for highly participatory, fun-forward pieces. With expertise in innovative storytelling, she’s worked with collaborators of all scales, from intimate theaters to giant theme parks. Specializing in playful genre exploration and interactive comedy, Andy excels at bringing audiences together by instilling heartfelt shenanigans into the theatrical experience.
Her long and storied mischief-making resume includes a collection of delightfully uncategorizable adventures. Writing fake sitcoms as part of the original primetime lineup of cult video competition Channel 101. Refereeing high school improv competitions for ComedySportz. Co-creating the presidential campaign of a fluffy white kitten for the adult swim network. Collecting vintage Bar Mitzvah footage for Comedy dot com. Guessing how long it takes actors to say soap opera dialogue for NBC. Performing with a haunted ventriloquist’s dummy at the Comedy Store. Creating a memoir in the style of a Dr. Bronner’s Soap Label. Raising a small human being that came out of her body.
Recently, Andy has been applying her skills to creating experiential entertainment. Recent clients include The Bezark Company, Cedar Fair, and Walt Disney Imagineering. Amongst many projects that are still shrouded in NDAs, she can share that she was the Immersive Performance Director for the original cast of Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser (Walt Disney Imagineering) the Creative Director for Tricks & Treats (California’s Great America) and the Immersive Performance Director for the most recent season of Ghost Town Alive! (Knotts Berry Farm)
In a previous career chapter, Andy worked in casting, matchmaking talent and creatives across multiple media and genres. For Center Theatre Group, Andy spent four seasons shepherding talent for projects at the Ahmanson, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theaters, as well as multiple workshop commissions and new play initiatives. Some highlights include Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Behavior of Broadus, The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens, Waiting for Godot and the CTG Writers’ Workshop Retreat. Her freelance television casting credits include The Connors on ABC, Documentary Now on IFC and Detroiters on Comedy Central.
Andy has spent a great deal of time and heart in the intimate theater and improv spaces of Los Angeles, working with companies like ComedySportz, Circle X, Theatre of NOTE and Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble. Andy is a proud alumna of Directors Lab West, The Second City’s Directing Program and UCLA’s School of Theatre Film and Television.
She is currently a Creator In Residence for the Los Angeles Public Library.
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