The GC CUNY Doctoral Theatre Students' Association in collaboration with The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and GC Public Programs presented The Edwin Booth Award: Mimi Lien livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 29 May at 4:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC-7) / 6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC-5) / 7:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4).
Livestreamed on this page on Friday 29 May at 4:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC-7) / 6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC-5) / 7:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4).
New York City, USA
Friday 29 May 2020
The Edwin Booth Award: Mimi Lien
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, the traditional in-person event is replaced by an enduring online tribute
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Friday 29 May 2020
The 2020 Booth Award Website celebrates four of Mimi Lien’s landmark undertakings -- a) An Octoroon, b) Superterranean, c) Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, and d) the Brooklyn performance space JACK -- alongside five-minute-or-less video tributes from academics and from her acclaimed collaborators.
Artists contributing include: Rachel Chavkin (The Great Comet, Hadestown), Dan Rothenberg (Pig Iron), Alec Duffy (JACK), Jennifer Kidwell (Underground Railroad Game), Tony Torn (Ubu Sings Ubu), as well as designers, performers, playwrights, and technicians.
In conjunction with the award The Segal Center will be streaming Pig Iron’s Superterranean (2019) from 5/29/20 through 5/31/20 on the Segal Center YouTube Channel and Love Unpunished (2005) from 6/01/20 through 6/03/20, on the Segal Center YouTube Channel.
Click here for a website dedicated to Mimi Lien's work, including more background on the above projects!
Mimi Lien designs sets and environments for theatre, 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 co-founder of JACK, the inclusion-minded performance space in Brooklyn; sits on the Board of Directors at Soho Rep; and is a core company member of Pig Iron Theatre Company (Philadelphia), where she was recently the lead artist of Superterranean (‘19), the company's epic piece of "visual theatre."
Her visual dramaturgy has been central to some of the most celebrated shows in recent NYC history, including Fairview, An Octoroon, Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, John, and Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812. Her work has been recognized with the Obie Award, Hewes Design Award, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Bessie Award, and the MacArthur Fellowship.
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