Bio
Aimy Tien (she/they) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist who fell into storytelling due to a combination of an irrational childhood fear of lions, a Val Kilmer film, and an overactive imagination. As an actor, writer, director, and producer, Aimy, a queer Vietnamese Chinese American, is driven by narrative plenitude, bringing the stories of people of color and marginalized groups to the page, stage, and screen. Selected collaborators and credits include Free Street Theater, About Face Theatre, the Guggenheim, PBS, and other national organizations.
She is a company member of 2nd Story and the founder of tinheart productions where they are developing multiple narrative projects centered on the intersections of race, healing, and sexuality. They produced the Cheri Oteri and Ashley Joyce led comedy series Zen Room, where she also co-starred. They are also currently producing Go to the Body a feature film focused on the stories of survivors and secondary survivors. She was recently a department head on South Side Season 2 (HBOMax / CBSViacom). Beyond producing commercials, industrials, and narratives, Aimy is a certified intimacy coordinator with IDC. Recent credits include Somebody Somewhere Season 2 (HBO), Single Car Crashes, and other productions.
They received a creative writing fellowship from the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, and her collection, Mosaic, was one of the top entries for the Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award. Outside of her film and stage work, Aimy facilitates conversations and workshops around the country on storytelling, queer advocacy, and equity, diversity, and inclusion. She is currently at work on a new multimedia collection, The Queer Joy Project, which will comprise of essays, poetry, personal narrative, film, and live performance . Previous work can be found in Sundog Lit, The Manifest-Station, WirehouseCo, and other publications.
Narrative Plenitude
Aimy’s work is driven by Viet Thanh Nguyen’s concept of narrative plenitude — the belief that there should be an abundance of stories so that no single story has to stand as monolith for an entire culture, group, or community. Aimy believes we are in need of stories that cover the range of our lived experiences, and, most importantly, that these stories already exist. We just need to tell them and to listen.