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

Education

Lien graduated from Yale University in 1997, and she then attended New York University where she earned her MFA in design from Tisch School of the Arts 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. 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 (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

1. Chow, Compiled By Andrew R. (2017-06-11). "2017 Tony Awards Winners". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
2. "Mimi Lien — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2017-06-14.
3. "Faculty & Staff". tisch.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-24.

External links

• Mimi Lien at the Internet Broadway Database
• Mimi Lien at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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