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MIMI LIEN is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera. She was born in New Haven, CT, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY . Having arrived at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer. Some favorite designs include Born Bad (Soho Rep), Judgment Day (Bard Summerscape), Neighbors (The Public Theater), Queens Blvd (Signature Theatre), Strange Devices from the Distant West (Berkeley Rep), Welcome to Yuba City (Pig Iron), In The Red and Brown Water (Alliance Theater), The Less We Talk (Hoi Polloi), and Becky Shaw (The Wilma Theater). Mimi is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company and The Civilians, resident designer at BalletTech, and she was a semifinalist in the Ring Award competition for opera design in Graz, Austria . Her work has been recognized by a Barrymore Award, three Barrymore nominations, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award nomination, Bay Area Critics Circle nomination, and she was a recipient of the 2007-2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Program. Her design for Love Unpunished (Pig Iron) was presented in the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, and her sculpture work was featured in the recent exhibition, Landscapes of Quarantine, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Mimi is originally from Cheshire, Connecticut.
Bio as of January, 2012.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
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