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

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for her work with the Broadway production. Lien is also a 2015 recipient of a

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Education

Lien graduated from

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in 1997, and she then attended

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where she earned her MFA in design from

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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

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. Lien is married to writer and director Alec Duffy. Together, Lien and Duffy are co-founders of JACK, a performing arts space in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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) * ''

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'' (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

References

External links

Mimi Lien
at the

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Mimi Lien
at the

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Living people American set designers Tony Award winners Yale University alumni MacDowell Colony fellows Tisch School of the Arts alumni MacArthur Fellows 1976 births {{design-bio-stub

Education

Theater

Awards and nominations

See also

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