The CRY HAVOC Company, Inc. is a not-for-profit theater company in New York City. Led by Artistic Director Kitt Lavoie, CRY HAVOC is committed to developing new plays and reinvestigating existing plays in an environment that demands that artists challenge the boundaries of their talent and technique. CRY HAVOC is committed to creating raw, provocative, and humane theater by approaching all plays – both comedy and drama – as conflicts between individuals struggling to do what each desperately believes is right. CRY HAVOC is committed to bringing the best of this work to the public as a powerful and sustained voice on the Off-Broadway stage.

The CRY HAVOC community began working together in 1997, and was formally incorporated as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization in 2008 in honor of its tenth year of work. Since its founding, CRY HAVOC has developed more than seventy new plays and scores of new approaches to existing plays through its active Workshop and Lab programs. In that time, CRY HAVOC has also brought more than 25 of these projects to the New York stage, including its critically acclaimed production of Romeo & Juliet (featuring two women in the title roles) and the world premieres of more than a dozen new plays. Projects developed with CRY HAVOC have also appeared in more than 35 productions at other major Off-Broadway, New York, and regional venues.

The CRY HAVOC artistic community is comprised of more than 150 actors, writers, directors, designers, composers, and production staff, and is the home of The CRY HAVOC Resident Company.