Radio Galaxy
11/6 – 11/22/2026
A new play by Michèle Aldin Kushner. Tino, a 17-year-old aspiring astronomer from working-class New Jersey, discovers a half-sister who needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant — and a biological father who finally understands him.
With Joey McIntyre, Lesli Margherita, Meera Simhan, Sendhil Ramamurthy
POP!
11/23/2026
Senior reunites with Chris Gethard for a one-night workshop of his new solo show about his grandfather’s emigration from Northern Ireland, at Irish Rep’s New Works Fall Festival.
With Chris Gethard
Aasif Mandvi: A Work in Progress
1/9 – 2/6/2027
Senior directs Aasif Mandvi’s funny, furious and deeply personal new solo show, the first project in the Primary Stages Studio Series.
With Aasif Mandvi
Georgiana & Kitty
Senior directs the audio production of the final chapter of Gunderson and Melcon’s Christmas at Pemberley trilogy, in which Georgiana Darcy and Kitty Bennet set out on adventures of their own.
Theater, film & audio — from Broadway to intimate new work.
Directing →Training directors and actors across university and conservatory programs.
Teaching history →A first book, and essays on directing as an act of leadership.
Read more →Facilitative, not directive.
“The director's job is to create the conditions for these conversations to happen with clarity, rigor, and heart.”
In the rehearsal room and the classroom alike, Senior practices what she calls facilitative leadership — decentering the director's authority, listening first, and building the work through dialogue rather than decree. It's the idea running through her directing, her teaching, and her writing.
Director. Educator. Author. Playwright. Producer.
More than 200 productions in 19 states and counting, including the Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Disgraced, which she helped develop from its earliest stages, and many new hit plays in development. An HBO special. Dozens of Audible projects, and a producer for Audible Theater since 2022. A teacher of directors, actors, artists and humans, currently at Yale and Notre Dame. Two books, and new plays of her own.
In ClaySignature Theatre
SweatHuntington Theatre Company
Byhalia, MississippiThe Kennedy Center
Hedda GablerWriters Theatre
<<ART>>Guthrie Theater
Waiting for LeftyAmerican Blues Theater
The Good John ProctorTrinity Repertory Company
Chris Gethard: Career SuicideHBO
¡VOS!Contemporary American Theater Festival
how to make an American sonArizona Theatre Company
DisgracedLincoln Center Theater
The SceneWriters Theatre
SleuthGuthrie Theater
Miss Bennet: Christmas at PemberleyMilwaukee Repertory Theater
The Who & The WhatLa Jolla Playhouse
Our Daughters, Like PillarsHuntington Theatre Company
Photograph 51South Coast Repertory
One of the Good OnesThe Old Globe