Mimi Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera. Arriving at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer. She is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company, and co-founder of JACK, a performance/art space in Brooklyn. Recent work includes Signature Plays, John (Signature Theatre), War, Preludes (LCT3), The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center), Black Mountain Songs (BAM/Brooklyn Youth Chorus), Appropriate (Mark Taper Forum), and An Octoroon (Soho Rep/TFANA). Mimi's designs for dance have been presented in the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan, and her stage designs have ... read more
Select Off-Broadway: How To Transcend A Happy Marriage and The Oldest Boy by Sarah Ruhl (LCT); Luck of the Irish by Kirsten Greenidge (LCT3); Familiar by Danai Gurira, Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl, Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge (Playwrights Horizons); Orlando by Sarah Ruhl (CSC); Orpheus (NYCO); Dark Sisters (MTG/Gotham); Menopausal Gentleman (The Ohio). Regional includes productions at Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Old Globe, ART, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter, Woolly Mammoth. Rebecca is a Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute, and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. tre Company), the world ... read more
Off-Broadway: Sons of the Prophet, Tigers Be Still (Roundabout); All New People, The Talls (Second Stage); The Singing Forest (The Public/NYSF); Thinner Than Water, Jack Goes Boating (LAByrinth Theater Co, Drama Desk nom); Apple Cove (Women's Project); Frankenstein (Soho Rep, Drama Desk Nom). International: Blackbird (West End); Troilus and Cressida (RSC); Electra (Epidaurus- Greece). Opera: Bluebeard's Castle/Il Prigioniero (La Scala, Nederlandse Opera); Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni (Opéra de Lyon). Regional: ACT, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Houston Grand Opera, Huntington Theater Co, The Old Globe, Santa Fe Opera, Shakespeare Theater Co, Signature Theatre Co, Westport, others. ... read more
Previously at the Friedman: The American Plan,To Be or Not To Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls, and Time Stands Still. He is a Tony and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work for theater and dance has been heard in over 500 Productions nationally and internationally, on Broadway and off. His accolades for Sound Design include the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and AUDELCO Awards. He a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award winner, and a proud recipient of the Princess Grace Award statue. ... read more