Aimy Tien
- Intimacy Coordinator
- Producer
- Actress
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 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 and narratives, Aimy is a Level 3 - certified intimacy coordinator with IDC with credits on Somebody Somewhere Season 2 (HBO), Single Car Crashes, and other film and television shows.
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.
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 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 and narratives, Aimy is a Level 3 - certified intimacy coordinator with IDC with credits on Somebody Somewhere Season 2 (HBO), Single Car Crashes, and other film and television shows.
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.
