Mimi Lien (born 1976) is a
Chinese American set designer, best known for doing the scenic design of ''
Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812.'' In 2017, she received a
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...
for her work with the Broadway production. Lien is also a 2015 recipient of a
MacArthur Fellowship
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...
.
Education
Lien graduated from
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
in 1997, and she then attended
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, th ...
where she earned her MFA in design from
Tisch School of the Arts
The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University.
Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the a ...
in 2003. Much of Lien's education is centered around architecture, which contributes to the large scale of her set designs. She has designed over 100 shows, operas, and installations, including 2 Broadway premiers. Lien is currently teaching as an adjunct professor in Set Design at
NYU Tisch.
Lien is married to writer and director
Alec Duffy
Alec Duffy is an Obie Award winning writer and director, and the Artistic Director of Hoi Polloi and JACK, a performing arts space in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
Career
Duffy has written and directed several shows with his theater company, Hoi Polloi ...
. Together, Lien and Duffy are co-founders of JACK, a performing arts space in
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. It is bordered by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the north, Williamsburg to the northeast, Classon Avenue and Bedford–Stuyves ...
.
Theater
* ''
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' (2023)
* ''Suffragist'' (2022)
''LOVE UNPUNISHED'' 2021(2021)
* ''Help'' (2020)
* ''Moby-Dick'' (2019)
''The Thin Place'' (2019)''SUPERTERRANEAN'' (2019)* ''Fairview'' (2019)
* ''The Secret Life of Bees'' (2019)
* ''Die Zauberflöte'' (2019)
* ''True West'' (2018)
* ''Lifespan of a Fact'' (2018)
*
''Fairview'' (2018)
* ''Memoirs of a Unicorn''
* ''A Period of Animate Existence'' (2017)
* ''Four Nights of Dream'' (2017)
* ''Pelleas et Melisande'' (2017)
* ''
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
''Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812'' (or simply ''The Great Comet'') is a sung-through musical adaptation of a 70-page segment from Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel ''War and Peace'' written by composer/lyricist Dave Malloy and directed by Rac ...
'' (2016)
* ''
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music'' (2016)
* ''War'' (2016)
* ''Lost in the Meadow'' (2015)
* ''Memory Palace'' (2015)
* ''John'' (2015)
* ''The Long Walk Opera'' (2015)
* ''Preludes'' (2015)
* ''An Octoroon'' (2015)
Awards and nominations
See also
*
Chinese people in New York City
References
External links
Mimi Lienat the
Internet Broadway Database
Mimi Lienat the
Internet Off-Broadway Database
The Internet Off-Broadway Database (IOBDB), also formerly known as the Lortel Archives, is an online database that catalogues theatre productions shown off-Broadway.
The IOBDB was funded and developed by the non-profit Lucille Lortel Foundatio ...
Living people
American set designers
Tony Award winners
Yale University alumni
MacDowell Colony fellows
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
MacArthur Fellows
1976 births
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