Mimi Lien (born 1976) is a
Chinese American
Chinese Americans are Americans of Chinese ancestry. Chinese Americans constitute a subgroup of East Asian Americans which also constitute a subgroup of Asian Americans. Many Chinese Americans have ancestors from mainland China, Hong Kong ...
set designer, best known for 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 a 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 colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...
.
Education
Lien graduated from
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...
in 1997, and she then attended
New York University
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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, as the School of the Arts at New York University, Tisch ...
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 two Broadway premieres. Lien is currently teaching as an adjunct professor in Set Design at
NYU Tisch.
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
Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. It is bordered by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Flushing Avenue to the north, Williamsburg to the northeast, Classon Avenue and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the ea ...
.
Theater
* ''An Octoroon'' (2015)
* ''Preludes'' (2015)
* ''The Long Walk Opera'' (2015)
* ''John'' (2015)
* ''Memory Palace'' (2015)
* ''Lost in the Meadow'' (2015)
* ''War'' (2016)
* ''
A 24-Decade History of Popular Music'' (2016)
* ''
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812'' (2016)
* ''Pelleas et Melisande'' (2017)
* ''Four Nights of Dream'' (2017)
* ''A Period of Animate Existence'' (2017)
* ''Memoirs of a Unicorn''
*
''Fairview'' (2018)
* ''Lifespan of a Fact'' (2018)
* ''True West'' (2018)
* ''Die Zauberflöte'' (2019)
* ''The Secret Life of Bees'' (2019)
* ''Fairview'' (2019)
* ''Superterranean'' (2019)
* ''The Thin Place'' (2019)
*
''Moby-Dick'' (2019)
* ''Help'' (2020)
* ''Love Unpunished'' (2021)
* ''Suffragist'' (2022)
* ''
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' (2023)
Awards and nominations
See also
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Chinese people in New York City
The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest and most prominent ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, hosting Chinese populations representing all 34 provincial-level administrative units of China. The Chinese American population ...
References
External links
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Living people
American scenic designers
Tony Award winners
Yale University alumni
MacDowell Colony fellows
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
MacArthur Fellows
1976 births
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