Kimberly Senior is a freelance director and the director of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning play Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar. Kimberly made her HBO debut with Chris Gethard: Career Suicide, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Kimberly was awarded the prestigious Alan Schneider Award at the 2016 TCG Conference. She is also a 2013 Finalist for the SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award. She is the recipient of the 2016 Special Non-Equity Jeff Award for her Chicago career achievements as a trail blazer, champion and role model for emerging artists.
As an educator, Kimberly has taught at DePaul University, Columbia College Chicago, University of Chicago, NYU, University of Rhode Island, Brown and is currently the Interim Head of the MFA Directing Program at Brooklyn College.
In Chicago, Kimberly is a member of the Artistic Collective at the Goodman Theatre, Resident Director at Writers Theatre and an Associate Artist at TimeLine Theatre. Kimberly founded Collaboraction Theatre Company in 1997, spent ten years as an associate artist at Strawdog Theater, eight years as an associate artist at Chicago Dramatists, and six years as an associate artist at the much beloved Next Theatre.
Kimberly has served as Program Director and as a dramaturg for Steppenwolf’s First Look Repertory of New Work and continues to develop new plays with the Ojai Playwrights Conference, PlayPenn, Cape Cod Theater Project and others. Kimberly also serves as a Producer for Audible Theatre and has helped make possible many titles including Chris Gethard’s A Father and the Son, Michael Cruz Kayne’s Sorry For Your Loss, and Darrell Hammond’s CRAY.
New York Credits: Disgraced (Broadway); Bella Bella and The Niceties (Manhattan Theatre Club); Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (Judd Apatow presents); The Who and The What, and Disgraced (Lincoln Center Theater 3); Discord (Primary Stages); Engagements (Second Stage); Dan Rather’s Stories of a Lifetime, Margaret Trudeau’s Certain Women of an Age, and Aasif Mandvi’s Sakina’s Restaurant (Audible). Chicago Credits: Support Group for Men, Disgraced, and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Goodman Theatre); Buried Child, The Scene, Marjorie Prime, Diary of Anne Frank, Hedda Gabler, and The Letters (Writer’s Theatre); Discord, 4000 Miles, and The Whipping Man (Northlight Theatre); Want and The North Plan (Steppenwolf); Inana, My Name is Asher Lev, All My Sons, and Dolly West’s Kitchen (TimeLine Theatre); The Great God Pan, After The Revolution, Madagascar, The Overwhelming, and The Busy World is Hushed (Next); Waiting for Lefty (American Blues); Old Times, The Conquest of the South Pole, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Fuddy Meers, and Knives in Hens (Strawdog); Cripple of Inishman, Bug, and The Pillowman (Redtwist Theatre); Thieves Like Us (The House Theatre); among others. Regional: One of the Good Ones (Pasadena Playhouse); <<ART>> (Guthrie); The Good John Proctor (Trinity Rep); how to make an American son (Arizona Theater Company); Our Daughters, Like Pillars, Sweat, and The Niceties (Huntington Theatre Company); Byhalia, MS (The Kennedy Center); The Niceties and Sex With Strangers (Geffen Playhouse); Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberly (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Other Than Honorable (Geva); Disgraced (Mark Taper Forum, Berkley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre); The Who and The What (La Jolla Playhouse); Little Gem (City Theatre); Games Afoot, Murder on the Nile, and A Few Good Men (Peninsula Players); Mauritius (Theatre Squared, Fayetteville, AR). Film/TV: Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (HBO). Film/TV: Marvel’s The Wastelanders and Starlord; Crowded Hours; Boars Nest; Ghostwriter and others.
Kimberly is the incredibly proud mother of Noah (17) and Delaney (15). She is a member of SDC.