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Kimberly Senior

Kimberly Senior is a freelance director, educator, mentor, mother, and advocate. She is the author of What Would a Person Do? Thoughts on Directing and Living.

Kimberly Senior (Director) is a freelance director whose award winning work has been seen in 15 states in over 200 productions. Kimberly directed the Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize winning, Tony nominated Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar.  Kimberly directed the HBO special Chris Gethard: Career Suicide and her work in audio has ranged from Marvel’s The Wastelanders to C13’s Ghostwriter.  She is a member of the Goodman Theatre’s Artistic Collective and has taught at a number of universities. Her first book, What Would a Person Do? is available on Amazon.  She is a proud union member of SDC and even prouder mother of Noah (19) and Delaney (17). Kimberlysenior.net

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Intimacy Directing for Theatre Book Release: Reading Number One 

Celebrate the Release of the First Textbook to Address Intimacy and Consent Work in our Theatre Classrooms.

Wednesday 21 Februrary 2024
United States
Three people stand onstage with raised hands.
Essay

Facilitative Directing Centers the Art

1 June 2026

How can a director decenter themselves while still fulfilling the role of “director”? Kimberly Senior found an answer to this question in Facilitative Leadership, a practice of redistributing power that transformed her recent rehearsal process. 

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