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Reviews, interviews, articles, and speeches spanning her career — from early Chicago storefront theater to Broadway and beyond.
Reviews, interviews, articles, and speeches spanning her career — from early Chicago storefront theater to Broadway and beyond.
Selected reviews by production. Click a production to see what critics wrote.
directed by Kimberly Senior, who created such a distinct feeling of emotional sincerity that it was difficult to not want to outright hug Finke in some of the play’s most hard-felt moments…
directed by Kimberly Senior, who created such a distinct feeling of emotional sincerity that it was difficult to not want to outright hug Finke in some of the play’s most hard-felt moments…
A new musical at City Theatre is thrilling audiences with exactly such a saga.
‘In Clay’ is an exceptional, enthralling, inspiring must-see show.
Cheers erupted when she reached into a kiln and triumphantly held the pot aloft.
Under the direction of Kimberly Senior, every element remains in perfect harmony. Senior handles the script and her cast with the care of a world-class symphony conductor, finding the exact tempo to let the tension breathe before it snaps.
Overall, one of the best plays I’ve ever seen.
Under the direction of Kimberly Senior, every element remains in perfect harmony. Senior handles the script and her cast with the care of a world-class symphony conductor, finding the exact tempo to let the tension breathe before it snaps.
Kimberly Senior directs the play, returning to the Guthrie after directing 'Art' two seasons ago, and the twisty script plays out well, with great pacing and momentum through the twists and turns, and breathless physicality.
plot-twisting, wildly entertaining whodunit...The acting is superb, with moments of comic genius.
Director Kimberly Senior knows just what she is doing while staging this extremely large play yet that still feels intimate at times.
…director Kimberly Senior, whose pacing seemed flawless to me…
…director Kimberly Senior, whose pacing seemed flawless to me…
¡VOS!” is a thoughtful, urgent, and incredibly entertaining production about how our past is both who we are and who we sometimes are trying to escape.
The actors, ably directed by Kimberly Senior, handle the switches effectively, often fueling the play with humorous moments.
The actors, ably directed by Kimberly Senior, handle the switches effectively, often fueling the play with humorous moments.
Ms. Senior's blocking works well with it.
Director Kimberly Senior turns the small-scale musical by Rebecca Simmonds (book and lyrics) and Jack Miles (music and lyrics) into something expansive in impact, intimate in form and sweeping in emotional reach.
Director Kimberly Senior turns the small-scale musical by Rebecca Simmonds (book and lyrics) and Jack Miles (music and lyrics) into something expansive in impact, intimate in form and sweeping in emotional reach.
Director Kimberly Senior has crafted a production where artistry extends beyond performance into every design element.
Kimberly Senior's direction keeps her comfortably active around the studio, throwing clay on a pottery wheel or dancing by herself, occupied with being, more than performing.
Under Kimberly Senior's direction, 'In Clay' is a kinetic whirlwind of water droplets flung from fingertips.
In Clay is an affecting, engaging, and utterly unique theatrical experience — unlike anything on stage now.
In short, In Clay is a triumph of intention and execution.
Tenacious and captivating.
Calderon Kellett is an experienced pro with snappy comedy dialogue... Combine that with an excellent director, Kimberly Senior (La Jolla Playhouse's notable “The Who and the What” in 2014), and this production bounces along with nary a dead spot as one “I-can't-believe-he(she)-said that!” moment follows on another.
It's a credit to both actors and to Senior's direction that these moments never feel forced. They just crackle.
Directed by Kimberly Senior, the show is fast-paced and knows what beats will hit with the audience. On opening night, the audience reacted with laughter, 'awws,' and gasps on cue, just where you would want them if watching this on TV. Senior makes good use of Cabral and Martinez's talents.
Director, Kimberly Senior, is on Kellett's wavelength, and does a great job with comedic timing… which leads to humorous and occasionally touching payoffs in the last section of the show.
Calderon Kellett is an experienced pro with snappy comedy dialogue... Combine that with an excellent director, Kimberly Senior (La Jolla Playhouse's notable “The Who and the What” in 2014), and this production bounces along with nary a dead spot as one “I-can't-believe-he(she)-said that!” moment follows on another.
Director Kimberly Senior's tender revival, which I expect will long resonate with those lucky enough to see it, is exquisitely tempered and wonderfully humane.
Fisher is perfectly cast in the Writers Theatre production, directed by Kimberly Senior. She is beyond captivating, particularly when mingling with audience members or encouraging participants to come out of their shells.
Director Kimberly Senior's tender revival, which I expect will long resonate with those lucky enough to see it, is exquisitely tempered and wonderfully humane.
It's a heavy subject, but director Kimberly Senior and actor Jessie Fisher explore it with sensitivity, empathy and quite a bit of welcome humor.
This production, directed by Kimberly Senior, features the fabulously droll Jessie Fisher as the narrator...Brilliant's list eventually tops a million entries, and this production earns equally joyful praises.
Director Kimberly Senior has chosen...Izumi Inabi's design uses the entire black box. There's grass and a wood fence, patio tables and stringed-up lights, and risers made from deck-type lumber, as if Fisher is inviting us into her own backyard.
One of the best shows of the year. I'd be stunned if anyone could watch it without becoming emotionally entwined in its story.
Kimberly Senior's direction is right on the mark. She has Fisher move throughout the space and even up into the theatre seats as she speaks her monologues.
Every Brilliant Thing...is one of the best shows of the year.
Jessie Fisher, under Kimberly Senior's direction, is our guide through the show's 70 minutes.
Director Kimberly Senior has guided Fisher to a remarkable performance that is deceivingly natural and immensely convincing.
Senior works hard to avoid any excessive or unearned sentimentality.
Under the direction of Kimberly Senior, best known for her work on the Pulitzer-winning play Disgraced, the production is expertly paced and seamlessly blends laughter with moments of genuine emotion.
Top-notch direction by Kimberly Senior and acting by a polished group from stage, screen and television wrap up a theatrical gift.
Under the direction of Kimberly Senior, best known for her work on the Pulitzer-winning play Disgraced, the production is expertly paced and seamlessly blends laughter with moments of genuine emotion.
In what is a function of Kimberly Senior's stellar directorial style, the pacing and timing are of the highest level as dialogue is often exchanged rapidly, though words never feel rushed as scenes breathe long enough for the audience to retrieve their breath.
‘One of the Good Ones’ has more than enough good, conscientious ones to enjoy a life beyond the San Gabriel Valley. That will likely continue at least for as long as a production has a director as good as efficient as maintaining an unflagging energy as Kimberly Senior, who finds an effortless fluidity in navigating the play's serious and silly moments.
Director Kimberly Senior has crafted French playwright Yasmina Reza's Art into an exquisitely tight 80 minutes, a pressure cooker for increasingly heated and petty arguments.
Male friendship gets entertainingly tested in 'Art,' Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning one-act now in a taut, timely production by Kimberly Senior at the Guthrie Theater.
Kimberly Senior directs the play and keeps it moving along at a brisk pace keeping the show at under 90 minutes, it flies by but feels like the perfect length.
crisp and clear direction...engaging, thought-provoking, and laugh out loud funny.
Director Kimberly Senior has crafted French playwright Yasmina Reza's Art into an exquisitely tight 80 minutes, a pressure cooker for increasingly heated and petty arguments.
Under the sharp, detail-oriented direction of Kimberly Senior… Guthrie Theater's production makes the conversation gripping.
Throughout the entire production, the audience is provided the rare opportunity to actually feel like a fly on the wall, as we watch these three men hash out their feelings, positive and negative. Culminating in a series of revelations and deep seeded feelings, ART proves to be a piece of art in itself, giving the audience the chance to reflect and sit with the feelings that it elicits from the viewer.
Kimberly Senior casts these four roles beautifully and elicits stunning performances from all of them.
...the theatrical magic conjured by director Kimberly Senior through performances, not props.
Kimberly Senior directs this unusual examination of pre-Salem witch trials; deftly weaving the narrative around a muted set piece by Michael McGarty that is also not without surprises.
Kimberly Senior casts these four roles beautifully and elicits stunning performances from all of them.
The exquisite ending will take your breath away
Warm, funny, poignant
Kimberly Senior, who directed Broadway's DISGRACED, shapes these scenes with customary aplomb, thrusting Pena's crisp dialogue with theatrical fury and locating the appropriate silences for delicate impact. It's masterful work.
Kimberly Senior, who directed Broadway's DISGRACED, shapes these scenes with customary aplomb, thrusting Pena's crisp dialogue with theatrical fury and locating the appropriate silences for delicate impact. It's masterful work.
The sprawling narrative, directed with heart by Kimberly Senior
As she has displayed in previous Huntington Theatre Company productions, director Kimberly Senior makes the three hours' traffic of the stage (with two intermissions) flow seamlessly. Moments of love and tenderness are intermingled with glimpses of deep-seeded frustration.
The sprawling narrative, directed with heart by Kimberly Senior
It’s pretty clear early on that Greenidge, and director Kimberly Senior…have no intention of letting the action drift into anything like melodrama.
The highlight for me was Kimberly Senior's fantastic direction because you often don't realize just how many plates she's got spinning at any given time.
The pacing is varied but tight — every word counts in this story.
The highlight for me was Kimberly Senior's fantastic direction because you often don't realize just how many plates she's got spinning at any given time.
Director Kimberly Senior masterfully builds, suspends, and expands the tension throughout the play with moments of stillness and breathlessness followed by rapid action and rampant activity. Ted Hewlett's character-driven fight choreography is seamlessly woven into Senior's staging and, at one moment, felt so real that it elicited audible gasps from the audience.
As portrayed by an exemplary cast under the incisive direction of Kimberly Senior, the responses of the workers to layoffs and a subsequent company lockout...range from fear to bewilderment to raw fury.
In Senior's hands, the interaction starts physical, then moves from booze-fueled camaraderie to booze-fueled rage. (The fight choreography by Ted Hewlett is so convincing that spectators may want to duck.) And the performances give off a feral sadness that's as distressing as all the aggression.
Deftly directed by Kimberly Senior, Fierstein moves around the Summit Hotel room and manages to create spaces and scenes far removed from Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Senior's direction keeps the pace light and lively, and she has seemingly reined in her star to good effect.
Fierstein, smartly directed by Kimberly Senior, makes the unusual choice not to play the part in drag, or to do much to make himself particularly 'feminine.'
Under the direction of Kimberly Senior, he creates a Bella Abzug of wit and toughness, quite recognizable to those of us who knew her. And he has done a superb job of presenting the vision and politics of a woman whose accomplishments still are not recognized by the mainstream.
Deftly directed by Kimberly Senior, Fierstein moves around the Summit Hotel room and manages to create spaces and scenes far removed from Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
And Bella, which Fierstein wrote and performs, under the precise and loving direction of Kimberly Senior, is a mechayeh—a blessing that brings joy and relief, here in the form of a funny, pointed, affectionate tribute
Kimberly Senior directs with a lifeline to every character's truth and to every heart in the house.
Kimberly Senior directs with a lifeline to every character's truth and to every heart in the house.
New York director Kimberly Senior helms a design team in creating a vivid world that extends no further than a cramped interior, accessible rooftop and side yard. It's a place defined by the sounds of birds, passing cars, believable street clothes and clutter; a place where Jim's framed Ole Miss jersey holds a place of pride in the living room and Laurel's Scrabble game is stored under the coffee table. It's lived in and it's home.
Director Kimberly Senior…moves the cast almost effortlessly around the stage and conflicts; the flow of the show feels so natural, it's almost easy to forget they're being directed.
Franklin seems, at least within Kimberly Senior's directorial vision and Helen Sadler's riveting portrayal, a fully formed, self-reliant woman about 20 years before her time, one whose passion is her work; she has no time, patience or interest in being the 'kind' of woman men expect.
…Director Kimberly Senior's inspired staging of Photograph 51…
Director Kimberly Senior's staging is unerring, and as brisk and knowing as the one hour, 40-minute script. The acting is intelligent and light, and the play feels like it's constantly on the move.
Photograph 51 may not tempt a new wave of women into genetic research, but that's not to say that this stylish and informative production, directed by Kimberly Senior, is a downer. […] Director Senior keeps the pace taut, and she does her best to offset the script's talkiness with stage business.
Franklin seems, at least within Kimberly Senior's directorial vision and Helen Sadler's riveting portrayal, a fully formed, self-reliant woman about 20 years before her time, one whose passion is her work; she has no time, patience or interest in being the 'kind' of woman men expect.
Photograph 51 is a crisply directed 100-minute you-are-there work. […] Director Kimberly Senior invests the non-stop talkiness of the play with vigor and a keen eye for movement, the male characters particularly conveying intent and urgency.
Ziegler constantly breaks the fourth wall, a convention director Kimberly Senior pushes even further by keeping all of the supporting characters onstage throughout, taking in the action upstage, then coming off their seats to deliver narrative like NBA reserves coming off the bench. This is Alienation Effect 101, and it won't work unless all hands on deck can give it an organic flow. They do.
Kimberly Senior directs Photograph 51 as a memory play, and since it's the men in Rosalind's life who are doing the remembering, she keeps them on stage at all times, observing even scenes in which they do not take part as Rosalind occasionally disappears from view.
This is a disturbingly dark, raw purposeful drama for which Writers Resident Director Kimberly Senior has assembled a top-flight cast and exposes the long-term effects of grief and remorse while delivering a powerful, one-two punch!
Senior and company make it impossible to look away, almost as if they've grabbed your upper arm and forced you to confront the corruption.
Chicago had David Mamet; the rest of Illinois was charted by Shepard and it has not changed course. None of this would have been so resonant had not director Kimberly Senior's production at Writers been an unstinting piece of work with a rich sense of place.
Director Kimberly Senior revives this Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece into the twenty-first century. It will have you drawn to the deep storyline of complexity and the conscious of how this family has gotten left behind within the changing times in America.
Senior pulls these outstanding performances from her cast as she highlights an American Dream that has fallen apart at the seams.
This all takes place in Sam Shepard’s amazing “Buried Child”, a Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece, as reinvigorated by Director Kimberly Senior.
one of Senior’s most insightful choices here was to cast Halie as a still-sexy woman with few inhibitions
Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama from 1978 feels fresh and new under director Kimberly Senior’s guidance.
This is a disturbingly dark, raw purposeful drama for which Writers Resident Director Kimberly Senior has assembled a top-flight cast and exposes the long-term effects of grief and remorse while delivering a powerful, one-two punch!
Directed by Kimberly Senior, Miss Bennet utilizes the same sarcastic and witty banter Austen was famous for, and is sweet and romantic without being sappy; moreover, the play is incredibly, delightfully funny from start to finish.
Told with modern wit and dazzling period style, this romantic comedy will delight Austen aficionados and newcomers alike.
The playwrights have written short wordless transitions between the scenes; director Kimberly Senior has enhanced the comedy in these, as though they were silent-film bits.
Directed by Kimberly Senior, Miss Bennet utilizes the same sarcastic and witty banter Austen was famous for, and is sweet and romantic without being sappy; moreover, the play is incredibly, delightfully funny from start to finish.
an unusual setup which is then effectively and inventively used by director Kimberly Senior in the placement and movement of the characters.
Kimberly Senior's direction is seamless, perceptive, and meticulous.
Under the astute direction of Kimberly Senior their acting finesse essentially 'turns (this) recipe into a meal,' as one Sobler character might note.
an unusual setup which is then effectively and inventively used by director Kimberly Senior in the placement and movement of the characters.
Smartly directed by the always impressive Kimberly Senior, the one-act features an excellent cast, a gorgeous, realistic scenic design and so much spirit and local color as to make any Chicagoan feel happily at home.
Kimberly Senior directs this production in a way that appropriately fills out the Goodman's main stage.
With the help of highly skilled actors, [Senior] is exploring the whole Jurassic mess of us, in all our diverse glory.
Support Group for Men is a smart play, directed – I'm inclined to say conducted – by one of Chicago's best, Kimberly Senior, whose unfailing ear for psychological nuance tells in this production's menu of pace and space.
Director Kimberly Senior (who recently directed Buried Child at Writers Theatre) tackles this complex mixture with a deft touch.
This female writer/director team takes a warmer lens in its examination of masculine identities, opening up a space in which men are allowed to explore their softer, more emotional sides without shame.
Smartly directed by the always impressive Kimberly Senior, the one-act features an excellent cast, a gorgeous, realistic scenic design and so much spirit and local color as to make any Chicagoan feel happily at home.
Directed by Kimberly Senior, the action’s pace is right on, as are the actor’s character interpretations.
Senior’s terrific direction does justice to Fairey’s fine script.
There is a sensitive balance shining from within Fairey’s refreshing and ground-breaking work that Senior has unearthed for our own enjoyment.
Director Kimberly Senior stages the evening in impeccable fashion (it was originally directed and developed by Kim Hughes), smoothing the fast-paced transitions and blasting period-appropriate pop songs between scenes.
Director Kimberly Senior stages the evening in impeccable fashion (it was originally directed and developed by Kim Hughes), smoothing the fast-paced transitions and blasting period-appropriate pop songs between scenes.
Under Kimberly Senior's direction, Mandvi is particularly moving as the show's two women: Farrida, a former dancer uprooted from the country she loved by her husband's dream, and Sakina, an Americanized teen oppressed by cultural customs.
Mr. Mandvi and his director, Kimberly Senior — with whom he worked on the Off Broadway production of Ayad Akhtar's 'Disgraced,' in 2012 — have kept the story set in the blithe, pre-9/11 days of 1998. On a surface level, that means that Samir is still glued to his Game Boy.... But the implications run deeper than vintage video games and songs: The show takes place in a different era, when being an immigrant of a certain faith certainly wasn't easy, but it also was somewhat less burdened with stigma..... 'Sakina's Restaurant' has acquired a new, somber underlining, making us miss a time when ignorance was paired with benign disinterest rather than hate.
Kimberly Senior keeps masterful control of the action, timing outbursts and giving reason time to prevail before chaos is presented.
Original director Kimberly Senior sure does turn up the heat with original cast Lisa Banes and Jordan Boatman better than ever.
Senior's production is taut and blessed with a tempo that gives both reasonable conversation and bitter enmity a chance to register.
Kimberly Senior keeps masterful control of the action, timing outbursts and giving reason time to prevail before chaos is presented.
Director Kimberly Senior, as she did with DISGRACED, explores the revelation of character and strength in dire-and familiar-circumstances.
Burgess’s searing two-character drama, which is directed at full throttle by Kimberly Senior in a world-premiere Huntington Theatre Company production
Director Kimberly Senior carefully guides a cast of 11 through the play's gritty content.
Director Kimberly Senior carefully guides a cast of 11 through the play's gritty content.
Under the taut direction of Kimberly Senior, the consistently talented cast members become like movable chess pieces, with each character demonstrating the high stakes involved in this military game of life.
The talented quartet, under the expert guidance of noted Chicago director, Kimberly Senior, is impeccable.
the smooth direction by Kimberly Senior, keeps the action and the story moving with no dead spots.
Director Kimberly Senior puts an intriguing spin on it by assembling a diverse cast dominated by actors of color. As a result, Writers' revival unfolds as something more than the typical midlife crisis drama. Instead, in the hands of the ever-astute Senior, 'The Scene' becomes an arresting meditation on the end of white, male hegemony.
The talented quartet, under the expert guidance of noted Chicago director, Kimberly Senior, is impeccable.
Directed by Kimberly Senior, Writers Theatre’s production is as seamless as it is chic.
Kimberly Senior's animated direction and pitch-perfect casting also could not be more ideal.
Kimberly Senior's animated direction and pitch-perfect casting also could not be more ideal.
Kimberly Senior's smooth direction succeeds in making this pastiche of one-liners and existential debate into a smart evening of theater.
an entertaining and intellectually stimulating 90 minutes, featuring three skilled Chicago actors working with a smart director and a clever script.
Senior, who will receive a special non-equity Joseph Jefferson Award next month in recognition for her 21 years in Chicago theater, goes beyond the gimmick to get to “Discord's” emotional core, where truth and salvation lie. She has in Hosner, Montgomery and Parker an accomplished trio who play off each other beautifully and whose performances suggest a sense of humor as well as hard-won introspection.
Wisely, director Kimberly Senior gets out of the playwright's way, allowing her gifted cast to address viewers directly, thus drawing us into the lively and passionate conversation onstage.
This production is extremely well done under director Kimberly Senior, the Chicago-based veteran who has achieved a deserved national reputation.
Under the highly skilled direction of Kimberly Senior, each of the actors gives a stunning performance as people with secrets that are revealed in the harshest manner, with the 90-minute play flying by in a flash.
Senior's sure-handed production deftly swerves unexpectedly between domestic comedy and tragedy almost before we know what has hit us.
Kimberly Senior, who directed 'Disgraced' on Broadway and has had a fruitful association with the playwright, is in top form at the Taper. This is an ideal forum for this intelligent play. The stage is at once intimate and expansive, drawing the audience into the kind of public-minded work Taper founder Gordon Davidson tirelessly championed.
Kimberly Senior, who has been with the play as director since its earliest incarnation in Chicago, masterfully stages her stellar performers around John Lee Beatty's impressively appointed set as though designing a world-class game of real-life chess, a stage picture complete when her players get knocked down and eliminated just like chess pieces.
Director Kimberly Senior must have gotten into her actors with a larding needle to make them absorb their characters so fully. Senior's hand in staging is remarkably invisible, at least until we realize with a jolt that the actors have left their generous portions of fennel-and-anchovy salads on the dinner table and are now in the living room, prowling around one another like famished tigers. The play builds like a tsunami, and we are stunned into gawking at its devastation.
Performances in director Kimberly Senior’s intimate production nicely simmer until events take a striking left turn into an act of rageful violence that is as shocking as it is surprising.
Under the highly skilled direction of Kimberly Senior, each of the actors gives a stunning performance as people with secrets that are revealed in the harshest manner, with the 90-minute play flying by in a flash.
Along the way we are treated to some terrific and imaginative staging by director Kimberly Senior, including several sharp and beautifully executed dance sequences by the cast.
Kimberly Senior has directed with sharpness and an ear for comedy.
Kimberly Senior, who helms this production, knows how to move things along, and executes seamless transitions from one scene to the next.
It is a tidy and engaging play, well-written and well-executed (direction is by Kimberly Senior). Though literary allusions abound, the dialogue sounds natural, and the detours into inner-monolgue-land offer fun and funny diversions. (Also fun diversions: the on-stage dance parties during scene transitions.)
There are some stunning gems in this play…the production itself is buoyed by the cast and director. You end up thinking about your own layered life and the ways in which you not only live it but present it.
Along the way we are treated to some terrific and imaginative staging by director Kimberly Senior, including several sharp and beautifully executed dance sequences by the cast.
That he manages to be simultaneously funny and moving while doing so is the key to the success of the show, sensitively directed by Kimberly Senior.
That he manages to be simultaneously funny and moving while doing so is the key to the success of the show, sensitively directed by Kimberly Senior.
It's a high-wire balancing act, and [Chris Gethard]'s director, Kimberly Senior, must share the credit for seeing that he never puts a foot wrong.
Chris Gethard's solo play about depression, his long-term relationship with his odd-ball therapist Barbara, vivid experiences with a range of mind-altering substances, and the joy of making people laugh, directed with nuance by Kimberly Senior, is more than standup packaged as a play. This show packs comedy with pathos and tragedy with laughter in a masterful mixture.
[The] lyrics of the songwriter Morrissey are a leitmotif throughout [Chris Gerhard: Career Suicide], which is nimbly directed by Kimberly Senior.
Director Kimberly Senior employs a raw method of storytelling that is without overly theatric distractions. Nothing feels contrived.
Director Kimberly Senior keeps the action moving in what could be a wordy play, fleshing out her two characters with skill and sensitivity.
Director Kimberly Senior keeps the action moving in what could be a wordy play, fleshing out her two characters with skill and sensitivity.
...under Kimberly Senior's direction, this taut two-person drama is engrossing and surprising, not only in its sexual politics but in its investigation of identity in the digital age.
Director Kimberly Senior makes good use of the intimate 'Audrey' performing space and sensitively draws us in to Olivia and Ethan's interactions both as eager lovers and as writers with incongruous emotional and professional needs.
Under Kimberly Senior's incisive direction, Pidgeon and Grush not only act up a storm but display so much body heat between them that you'll likely find your interest unflagging throughout the play's brisk two hours.
What Senior extracts from her actors is a perfect storm of the best and the worst of humanity backed into a corner, in which the stakes really are life and death.
Kimberly Senior's direction of this play is vigorous and stirring, heartfelt and brimming with love.
The staging has obviously been meticulously directed but Kimberly Senior's guidance is invisible to the audience's eye, the best kind of directing.
We all know 'The Diary of Anne Frank' does not end happily. If you are watching a truthful, deeply engaged production, and director Kimberly Senior's work for Writers Theatre is most certainly in that category, you are left with a feeling of unspeakable waste, loss and regret, the very familiar having been made cruel and strange.
If ever there was ensemble theater, this is it, and Writers' fine company directed by Kimberly Senior gets down to the very fiber of human reckoning, of valiant mutual accommodation thrown against personal frailty and ravaging fear.
Under Kimberly Senior's direction...this production builds in intensity as it moves to its conclusion — a finale as devastating as it is inevitable.
What Senior extracts from her actors is a perfect storm of the best and the worst of humanity backed into a corner, in which the stakes really are life and death.
The blocking and honesty of this cast makes director Kimberly Senior’s production an ensemble triumph.
Directed to perfection by Kimberly Senior on a unique set
Kimberly Senior’s new production for Writers Theatre smartly captures that sense of claustrophobia.
Directed by Kimberly Senior with feeling and authority, portrayed by a capable cast of talented actors and supported by a group of skilled behind-the-scene artists, this may be the best production of a play this Fall.
Senior and Akhtar pretty much created this cultural event together, so it is no surprise that the Goodman production and the play feel very much at one with each other.
The play's centerpiece, ratchets up the tension slowly and carefully under the direction of Kimberly Senior, who's shepherded Disgraced through all its major productions so far.
Directed by Kimberly Senior with feeling and authority, portrayed by a capable cast of talented actors and supported by a group of skilled behind-the-scene artists, this may be the best production of a play this Fall.
It's astounding how perfectly Senior interprets the text, making the already-strong source material even mightier.
In the capable hands of the play's original director, Kimberly Senior, 'Disgraced' brings to the surface the underlying anxieties that haunt us all from the complexities of identity, to religion, politics and class in a flawless 80-minute production.
Direction was by Kimberly Senior, who staged Disgraced in Chicago and New York, and obviously knows how to make every performance, every character and every scene click.
There are moments in this play that are genuinely difficult to watch, almost sickening to witness, and the cast under director Kimberly Senior doesn't flinch when it comes delivering Akhtar's punch to the gut of post-9/11 America's (and now post-11/13 Paris') gut.
Savvily directed by Kimberly Senior...Senior, who also directed the play on Broadway, frames the piece beautifully so that the characters always feel real and believable, even as the action descends into acts of brutality.
Director Kimberly Senior crafts the action with careful attention to the rhythm of continually rising tensions and to the nuances of interaction among the characters.
But in the 90-minute one-act, directed with moment-to-moment acuity by Kimberly Senior, the expensive suit, the ingratiating charm, the winning confidence of White's implosive Amir peel away to reveal a striver who is, by choice and expediency, living a lie.
Director Kimberly Senior—who directed this play through its 2012 Chicago premiere and subsequent Broadway run—does not barrage her audience with these big ideas. Rather, she masterfully draws out the humor in Akhtar's multifaceted, unrelenting, ever-unpredictable script.
This production is a solidly acted, well-oiled machine, and no surprise - [it] is directed by Kimberly Senior, who shepherded the show through its 2012 Chicago premiere and off-Broadway run as well as its 2014-15 Broadway production.
This specific production [is] blessed with superb direction by Kimberley Senior.
Senior's experience with this script is evident in the smooth direction and pacing.
Under Senior’s masterful direction, the talented ensemble interact naturally.
With 'Inana', TimeLine Theatre Company and playwright Michele Lowe set out to tell a story of love and hope. Thanks to a fantastic script, outstanding performances, and Kimberly Senior's deft directorial hand at the helm, this production absolutely delivers on that.
As with all TimeLine productions, 'Inana' is expertly acted, directed (by Kimberly Senior) and designed.
...These multiple dimensions-did I mention the flashbacks and the double-casting?-could easily descend into vertigo-inducing chaos, but director Kimberly Senior ensures that all transitions are executed cleanly and crisply.
With 'Inana', TimeLine Theatre Company and playwright Michele Lowe set out to tell a story of love and hope. Thanks to a fantastic script, outstanding performances, and Kimberly Senior's deft directorial hand at the helm, this production absolutely delivers on that.
...Once again TimeLine Theatre has made a forgotten, little understood event from the recent past feel relevant and immediate. This play is a fascinating puzzle box of events and involvements, peopled with quirky, likable characters who, thanks to Kimberly Senior's astute direction, bring humanity to the anonymity of history.
Richly mined by Kimberly Senior...Few plays sort stuff out as satisfactorily as 'Inana'. As with many plays from TimeLine Theatre, this is valuable make-believe, reminding us that there are kindred souls among our supposed enemies.
Kimberly Senior's direction succeeds in making this a lesson in recent history as well as a memorable personal story.
There is a lot of mystery in this smoothly directed play (Kimberly Senior) where the intimate stage goes from hotel room to other areas with great ease.
What's remarkable about this savvy piece, acted to the hilt by those four cast members in Kimberly Senior's smartly spare production, is its insight into the vagaries of memory and the navigation of grief.
Along with the formidable acting, it is the careful understatement of Senior's production that makes this show work so well...
What's remarkable about this savvy piece, acted to the hilt by those four cast members in Kimberly Senior's smartly spare production, is its insight into the vagaries of memory and the navigation of grief.
Watching this masterfully acted 85-minute work unfold at Writers Theatre – where director Kimberly Senior has gathered a sterling quartet of actors who mesh like a string quartet – might hit far too close to home for those with aging parents.
supplying a quietly funny, quietly terrifying dimension that comes through well in Kimberly Senior's current staging for Writers Theatre.
Kimberly Senior (making her Goodman Theatre debut) brings this play to life with her excellent direction.
Kimberly Senior (making her Goodman Theatre debut) brings this play to life with her excellent direction.
'Rapture, Blister, Burn' is blessed with a spoton cast, guided by Kimberly Senior's razor sharp directing.
What Gina Gionfriddo's smart comedy, receiving an incisive Chicago premiere via the overdue Goodman directing debut of Kimberly Senior and a finely tuned cast, does is allow the trio to actually test the waters.
Senior’s cast is exceptional, from first to last.
Under the masterful direction of Kimberly Senior, the flipflopping attitudes make for hilarity and thoughtprovoking banter.
The main characters in this funny look at what feminism has done to our women is smoothly directed by Kimberly Senior.
Mr. Akhtar's play, which was first seen in New York in 2012 and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, has come roaring back to life on Broadway in a first-rate production directed by Kimberly Senior that features an almost entirely new cast.
Mr. Akhtar's play, which was first seen in New York in 2012 and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize, has come roaring back to life on Broadway in a first-rate production directed by Kimberly Senior that features an almost entirely new cast.
Under Kimberly Senior's bracing direction, get ready to gasp.
Director Kimberly Senior's production deftly modulates its way through the play's seismic mood shifts.
Senior ... lets the tension build naturally, the dialogue slows when it needs to and the violence shocks and repulses.
Kimberly Senior is again with the production to steer the excellent current cast through the high-speed, highly charged events.
Director Kimberly Senior’s smart casting produced several fine performances besides the excellent turn from Kate Fry.
...director Kimberly Senior and a terrific Writers Theatre cast, led by a delectably ferocious Kate Fry, mine unexpectedly rich veins of comedy in Ibsen's drama of domestic misery.
...dagger-sharp direction by Kimberly Senior, and its breathtakingly hot-and-cold performance by the impossibly elegant Kate Fry...This is a lip-smackingly delicious, tabloid-worthy show awash in sex-and-power games and self-destruction.
Director Kimberly Senior's slyly self-aware, shrewdly revisionist and thrillingly intimate new Writers Theatre production of the classic Henrik Ibsen portrait of the neurotic, 19th-century married woman...is a 'Hedda Gabler' that knows it's a "Hedda Gabler," and knows you know too...But as with the best such works, Senior's deft blending of "Hedda the play" and "Hedda the perception" doesn't so much feel like an imposition on the original text as a teasing out of latent themes, a subtle shifting of priorities that helps you see what always was there.
Director Kimberly Senior’s smart casting produced several fine performances besides the excellent turn from Kate Fry.
Senior's direction perfectly tunes the pace and timing of this stirring story and the three actors carry out their roles with emotional depth.
...directed with a crisp, clear and strikingly unsentimental fluidity by Kimberly Senior...
Senior's direction perfectly tunes the pace and timing of this stirring story and the three actors carry out their roles with emotional depth.
And from the very first line spoken by its title character, this magnificent TimeLine production, superbly directed by Kimberly Senior and performed by three extraordinary actors generates an intensely elevated pulse. “Asher Lev” alters the way you see and feel. No small feat.
Besides canny casting, Kimberly Senior's affecting, forthright production benefits from the director's clear eye and sense of balance. Every little thing about this show is credible, from the fervent father-son battles to the quietly devastating penultimate scene.
Kimberly Senior has done a magnificent job of bringing Posner’s adaptation to life in Chicago.
Director Kimberly Senior does as much for the script, giving expository narrative and illustrative flashbacks a first-person, present-tense immediacy.
The 75-minute one-act's principal focus is on the unreliability of memory—it's never certain whether the suspected abuse actually took place—and the play's ambiguities are skillfully negotiated by director Kimberly Senior and her excellent cast.
The cast lives inside the skins of their characters, with not a false note struck throughout the evening... the actors portray them with an assurance and understanding that superbly reflects their skills and the director's insightful guidance.
The 75-minute one-act's principal focus is on the unreliability of memory—it's never certain whether the suspected abuse actually took place—and the play's ambiguities are skillfully negotiated by director Kimberly Senior and her excellent cast.
Director Kimberly Senior and scenic designer Courtney O'Neill execute a cleverly resonant concept for Next's staging, enclosing the entire action within the coffee house where Jamie meets with Frank at the top of the play; Heather Gilbert's nimble lighting design establishes shifts of location, while cast members not in the current scene remain onstage as patrons, ready to enter Jamie's thoughts at any moment. It's an astute evocation of the elusive, intrusive fluidity of memory.
The La Jolla Playhouse production is superb, set against a backdrop of blue and white Islamic mosaic. Chicago-based director Kimberly Senior, who helmed Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winner, 'Disgraced,' has a flawless feel for his rhythms and wit, and she's marshaled an outstanding cast to inhabit these intriguing characters.
Senior's direction is nimble and ideally in tune with the rhythm of playwright Akhtar's words.
Enacted with fierce conviction by a four-person ensemble directed by Kimberly Senior, the play comes alive when the disputes turn acrimonious and the heartbreak is palpable behind the hollering.
The La Jolla Playhouse production is superb, set against a backdrop of blue and white Islamic mosaic. Chicago-based director Kimberly Senior, who helmed Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize-winner, 'Disgraced,' has a flawless feel for his rhythms and wit, and she's marshaled an outstanding cast to inhabit these intriguing characters.
Given the polish of the La Jolla Playhouse production, you'd never know the play's a world premiere. And since Kimberly Senior also directed the original Disgraced, it's clear she honors the playwright's wishes.
Kimberly Senior's clean and clear direction serves the work expertly.
Kimberly Senior's clean and clear direction serves the work expertly.
'The Who & the What', tautly directed by Kimberly Senior, explores intergenerational and interfaith conflicts with fluid eloquence and intelligence.
Akhtar's text teems with big ideas that could easily crash together in a dissonant mess. Under Kimberly Senior's steady direction, they come together in a powerful symphony that packs a dynamite punch, but will keep you laughing throughout.
Herzog's warmth and honesty make it work and Senior and her cast are sheer perfection in telling this story.
Kimberly Senior's direction reinforces Herzog's intelligent approach, keeping her cast reined in well short of cutesy stereotypes.
In this intimate but universal story director Kimberly Senior makes everything flow easily but unpredictably. She and her cast find the truth in the casual mess of a cereal bowl, the visible relief of a hug.
Herzog's warmth and honesty make it work and Senior and her cast are sheer perfection in telling this story.
'Homecoming 1972' has been given a richly detailed production from the skilled director Kimberly Senior, who uses Koon's notable skills with character development to forge a series of vignettes that feel consistently real — and, in a few places, are genuinely moving. Nothing here is overplayed: Senior is relentless in enforcing the notion that the feelings of small-town folks in Minnesota are not expressed through screaming fits, but mostly must be discerned from the subtexts of their polite conversations.
Kimberly Senior's production is thoughtfully staged and impeccably acted, remarkably fulfilling Koon's efforts to encapsulate a swath of social upheaval while still feeling organic; no idea or issue comes across as shoehorned in.
'Homecoming 1972' has been given a richly detailed production from the skilled director Kimberly Senior, who uses Koon's notable skills with character development to forge a series of vignettes that feel consistently real — and, in a few places, are genuinely moving. Nothing here is overplayed: Senior is relentless in enforcing the notion that the feelings of small-town folks in Minnesota are not expressed through screaming fits, but mostly must be discerned from the subtexts of their polite conversations.
Little Gem is a sincere, unadorned tale, and Senior gets authentic and moving performances from her cast.
Director Kimberly Senior provided the spatial and emotional support to allow the three actors to create their world out of a void.
Little Gem is a sincere, unadorned tale, and Senior gets authentic and moving performances from her cast.
Director Kimberly Senior orchestrates the theatrical ebb and flow of the action with a sharp, unobtrusive eye.
Senior's Northlight production is an aptly unstinting affair that's uniformly well-acted.
Director Kimberly Senior orchestrates the theatrical ebb and flow of the action with a sharp, unobtrusive eye.
Persuasively shaped by Kimberly Senior at Northlight Theatre it's an unsung story worth seeing and remembering.
Kimberly Senior's effective, compelling production, featuring three poignant performances on Jack Magaw's handsome unit set, presents a challenging new take on our history of inclivility.
Senior's great strength is her casting, here on vivid and often thrilling display
Senior's great strength is her casting, here on vivid and often thrilling display
Kimberly Senior's directing allows the script's literacy, wit, and emotion to shine through with credible realism.
This production is well orchestrated and almost choreographed by Director Senior
This is a two plus hours of intimate storytelling, and Senior captures every word of McDonagh’s script with her strong cast.
It would've been easy for director Kimberly Senior to go to the quaint-and-colorful route. But she and her cast avoid turning the townsfolk into merry blarney peddlers, thus preserving the script's dry humor and unpredictability.
(Kimberly) Senior's take on McDonagh's fractious and loquacious yokels provides a decent amount of laughs, but it's the glancing moments of offhanded kindness that breathe some warmth into this unsentimental tale of dashed dreams and duplicity
This is a two plus hours of intimate storytelling, and Senior captures every word of McDonagh’s script with her strong cast.
Director Kimberly Senior brings us face to face with these nosy pessimists and all the other colorful characters in this tight-knit and ready-fisted community.
Kimberly Senior's breathlessly intelligent production taps enormous wells of honesty.
Kimberly Senior's fast-paced and laudably fearless production.
Kimberly Senior's breathlessly intelligent production taps enormous wells of honesty.
Director Kimberly Senior builds the production with a sure sense of pace and gathering tension through its unbroken sweep of 75 minutes.
Dynamically staged by helmer Kimberly Senior and earnestly acted by a cast topped by Aasif Mandvi ("The Daily Show"), this play has "Transfer me!" written all over its face.
Kimberly Senior manages the shifting tone and steady build of Akhtar's script skillfully.
'Disgraced', in a sleek production directed by Kimberly Senior, is a continuously engaging, vitally engaged play.
Dynamically staged by helmer Kimberly Senior and earnestly acted by a cast topped by Aasif Mandvi ("The Daily Show"), this play has "Transfer me!" written all over its face.
The play's action is expertly guided by director Kimberly Senior so that the play's numerous plot twists – several of which come in rapid succession – never seem forced. Instead, the humor of the writing, the richness of the characterization, and the complexity of the play's handling of race politics all shine through clearly
It's a good production. Director Kimberly Senior, cast and creative team put effort into atmosphere.
It's a good production. Director Kimberly Senior, cast and creative team put effort into atmosphere.
Lowell’s The Letters, under the direction of Kimberly Senior, is a masterful subtle mystery.
The two actors, under the sharp direction of Kimberly Senior, generate just the right complicated chemistry.
Director Kimberly Senior keeps the suspense high during every intimate minute of this evocative 70-minute show.
Kimberly Senior, a rising Chicago director, is staging a rather smart and sexy thriller set in Soviet Russia...Senior has created a small, subtext-dominated world that feels entirely believable — and she's shrewd enough a director to know how to harness the life-and-death stakes of the setting.
Lowell’s The Letters, under the direction of Kimberly Senior, is a masterful subtle mystery.
Senior manages to make each segment of the “cat and mouse game” work to perfection.
director Kimberly Senior sustains the tension at breath-catching pitch.
Directed by Kimberly Senior and Jack Magaw, Bug is absolutely sick. And by sick we mean fantastic, in the most superlatively perverse possible sense.
Kimberly Senior's juicy Redtwist Theatre production of Tracy Letts' 'Bug'
Directed by Kimberly Senior and Jack Magaw, Bug is absolutely sick. And by sick we mean fantastic, in the most superlatively perverse possible sense.
As she did in the same space last season with The Pillowman, Senior modulates handily between emotional drama and visceral physicality; she might just be our theatrical version of Kathryn Bigelow.
Director Kimberly Senior escalates it with bloody urgency.
Sean Mallary’s lighting changes and the choreographed confessions blocked in Kimberly Senior’s staging keep the clue-mongering fluid and forceful.
If ...linguistic contemplation — with an international flavor — floats your boat, then the production at the Next Theatre, directed in disciplined and clear fashion by Kimberly Senior, is your kind of heady play.
Now, with director Kimberly Senior's searing production of Rogers' earlier play “Madagascar,” also at Next, the writer's intriguing gifts come into even greater focus.
Sean Mallary’s lighting changes and the choreographed confessions blocked in Kimberly Senior’s staging keep the clue-mongering fluid and forceful.
Kimberly Senior’s direction impressively handles Pinter’s pauses.
A very sexy production of what unspools here as a very sensual play. It will have you on the edge of your seat.
Director Kimberly Senior’s decision to cast younger actors in Harold Pinter’s 1971 work – Old Times – brings a strong sense of sensuality to the work not found when older actors play the threesome.
Kimberly Senior’s direction impressively handles Pinter’s pauses.
Using silence and timing to perfection, Director Kimberly Senior builds the intrigue and the questions.
Having proved a dab hand at Chekhov for Strawdog Theatre, Kimberly Senior returns to the company to direct this taut, ultimately haunting portrait of middle-aged marrieds Deeley and Kate, whose lives are disturbed by the arrival of Anna, Kate's flatmate from 20 years back.
Senior commands an impressive design team to turn the Strawdog space - the attic above Tutto Fresco – into the attic of an unemployed dude and his lady.
Senior commands an impressive design team to turn the Strawdog space - the attic above Tutto Fresco – into the attic of an unemployed dude and his lady.
Kimberly Senior directs this production (as all her others) with such a light touch it would be easy to forget that she was there, except for the fact that the performances are uniformly excellent, the pacing impeccable, and the emotional heart of the play right out there on its sleeve.
Kimberly Senior directs this production (as all her others) with such a light touch it would be easy to forget that she was there, except for the fact that the performances are uniformly excellent, the pacing impeccable, and the emotional heart of the play right out there on its sleeve.
As I watched Kimberly Senior's enveloping, powerfully acted and emotional production...I kept thinking... although she wisely respects the play's integrity, Senior also subtly evokes the shadows of American workers' past. Sitting in the half-light — their feelings unknown — her unspeaking witnesses offer a compelling counterpoint to the familiar tales of wronged workers.
The American Blues Theater, under tight direction by Kimberly Senior, has mounted a worthy production of Waiting For Lefty.
‘The North Plan,’ ...could be simply shifted a few doors north, with cast, script and director intact, and it would be one of the best things produced at Steppenwolf this year...Credit director Kimberly Senior with making the physical limitations of the space no limit at all, and keeping things moving at just the requisite pace... If I were an artistic director shopping for a play, I'd go all-in to pick this one up.
Kimberly Senior's savvy and laudably fearless production is riveting.
‘The North Plan,’ ...could be simply shifted a few doors north, with cast, script and director intact, and it would be one of the best things produced at Steppenwolf this year...Credit director Kimberly Senior with making the physical limitations of the space no limit at all, and keeping things moving at just the requisite pace... If I were an artistic director shopping for a play, I'd go all-in to pick this one up.
It has been brilliantly directed by Kimberly Senior, whose ever bold and inventive spirit...helped create a deliciously cinematic (and also winningly Brechtian) piece of theater.
It has been brilliantly directed by Kimberly Senior, whose ever bold and inventive spirit...helped create a deliciously cinematic (and also winningly Brechtian) piece of theater.
If you were wondering what the gifted Chicago director Kimberly Senior can really do with a moving stage picture, then the bravura results are on display here. 'Thieves Like Us' is perhaps the slickest and most polished show I've ever seen at the House Theatre...It is a fine caper, a great yarn, staged with relish, imagination, oomph and élan.
Senior elicits strong performances from her supporting cast as well
This pointed, powerful Uncle Vanya stands on its own, maintaining a fine balance between hilarity and profundity and marking director Kimberly Senior as one of the best interpreters of Chekhov in these parts.
The natural depiction of the human condition onstage is stunningly realized in Senior's rather dark production...In Senior's hands, the stagnant life in Uncle Vanya is both recognizable and compelling.
This pointed, powerful Uncle Vanya stands on its own, maintaining a fine balance between hilarity and profundity and marking director Kimberly Senior as one of the best interpreters of Chekhov in these parts.
Exquisitely directed by Kimberly Senior, the cast captures the sense of family that is essential to a successful production by finding a comfort with each other that allows the language to flow naturally.
All My Sons is brilliantly orchestrated by director Kimberly Senior, who has assembled a sterling cast, and together they breathe fire into a play that might easily feel dogmatic.
(In) Kimberly Senior's beautiful, gut-wrenching and quite revelatory revival for TimeLine Theatre...Senior has no time for sentiment-no time at all-but she understands that this is a play that needs to make an audience cry. What amazed me the most wasn't so much the emotions on display, but rather how well Senior captures the feeling of fearful dread...
Exquisitely directed by Kimberly Senior, the cast captures the sense of family that is essential to a successful production by finding a comfort with each other that allows the language to flow naturally.
Kimberly Senior's stripped-down staging of Anton Chekhov's last play...feels nearly perfect for our age of scarcity and anxiety. The entire ensemble fully inhabits the tale's aura of hapless good intent trumped by harsh reality...
Kimberly Senior's stripped-down staging of Anton Chekhov's last play...feels nearly perfect for our age of scarcity and anxiety. The entire ensemble fully inhabits the tale's aura of hapless good intent trumped by harsh reality...
And while it could be well argued that in a new era of innovation and forward thinking, another trip to the same old Orchard is hardly necessary, Kimberly Senior's quietly staged, achingly acted production is full of modest but considerable rewards and, yes, feels totally in sync with the moment.
It's Kimberly Senior's tour-de-force Next Theatre production...Senior achieves a heart-stopping level of dramatic tension...This is a visceral piece of must-see theater...This is surely the most accomplished work of Senior's career and one of the very best shows in the 28-year history of Next.
Senior's production, so spartan in its acting and design but an intellectual and emotional bonanza, is almost completely in sync with the material...For the first 90 minutes, I was admiring Senior's 11-actor ensemble; for the last 20, I was so frightened I couldn't remember my name.
It's Kimberly Senior's tour-de-force Next Theatre production...Senior achieves a heart-stopping level of dramatic tension...This is a visceral piece of must-see theater...This is surely the most accomplished work of Senior's career and one of the very best shows in the 28-year history of Next.
Staging just about anything in Redtwist's cramped storefront space is an exercise in claustrophobia--a fact director Kimberly Senior adroitly exploits in this harrowing production...Senior places the actors in a narrow alley between opposing rows of seats, so audience members have a close-up view of the cat-and-mouse game. A smart, meticulous cast play most everything tight to the vest, making for a taut, absorbing evening.
Staging just about anything in Redtwist's cramped storefront space is an exercise in claustrophobia--a fact director Kimberly Senior adroitly exploits in this harrowing production...Senior places the actors in a narrow alley between opposing rows of seats, so audience members have a close-up view of the cat-and-mouse game. A smart, meticulous cast play most everything tight to the vest, making for a taut, absorbing evening.
Certain things can only be revealed in close-up. It's a tool well-suited to cinema but not often practical in theater unless the space is small and the director exceptionally clever. Which brings us to Kimberly Senior's unforgettable production of The Pillowman for Redtwist Theatre, which...nails what far too few off-Loop theater companies (and their directors) are willing to go after. I'm speaking of intimacy that nearly goes too far.
Under talented director Kimberly Senior and sporting a top list of actors, Redtwist Theatre’s production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman becomes one of the finest, most intense black comedy to appear on a storefront stage in many years.
As guest director for Redtwist Theatre’s production of The Pillowman, Kimberly Senior has successfully crafted an exhibition of unrelenting tension and suspense.
Senior's cinematic staging is always smart and sometimes breathtaking, and her more-than-capable actors bring wit and pathos to the stage in equal measure.
Senior's cinematic staging is always smart and sometimes breathtaking, and her more-than-capable actors bring wit and pathos to the stage in equal measure.
...it is emotional turmoil that is served up in Dolly West's Kitchen, playwright Frank McGuinness' simultaneously black Irish and deeply Chekhovian drama, now in director Kimberly Senior's altogether sterling production at TimeLine Theatre.
Senior has nimbly teased a robust production out of Chekhov's delicate play, poised between suffering and silliness, striking in its bald honesty and bold emotion.
Senior has nimbly teased a robust production out of Chekhov's delicate play, poised between suffering and silliness, striking in its bald honesty and bold emotion.
there's far more smoldering sexual energy in the house than in most 'Three Sisters,' partly because the translation allows for that, partly because the actors actually are the right age, and partly because Senior knows how to dial up the tension.
Director Kimberly Senior's actors are so convincing as the complications pile up and the absurdity burgeons that we too become pleasantly befuddled.
Director Kimberly Senior's actors are so convincing as the complications pile up and the absurdity burgeons that we too become pleasantly befuddled.
The very capable young Chicago director Kimberly Senior...gives this hybrid play a production that's sufficiently credible that we stay with the characters throughout, and sufficiently funny that all the bizarre people on stage don't begin to cloy. She succeeds admirably.
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VideoGuthrie TheaterSleuth: An interview with Director Kimberly SeniorMarch 31, 2026
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VideoBroadwayWorldExclusive Video: Gloria Calderón Kellett and Kimberly Senior Talk ONE OF THE GOOD ONESOne of the Good Ones · June 3, 2025
AudioCollaboraction RadioEpisode 67 with Collaboraction founder Kimberly SeniorDecember 13, 2024
AudioWriters Theatre: The Green RoomKimberly Senior, Jessie Fisher and the gift of Every Brilliant ThingNovember 27, 2024
VideoWriters TheatreEvery Brilliant Thing: A Conversation with Kimberly Senior and Jessie FisherNovember 22, 2024
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PrintMinnesota Star TribuneThe Guthrie Theater's 'Art' wrestles with questions of the heart«ART» · December 20, 2023
PrintTucson LifestyleRenowned TV writer pens coming-of-age comedy in world premiere at Arizona Theatre Companyhow to make an American son · June 2022
PrintWBURThe Huntington's 'Our Daughters, Like Pillars' has family at heartApril 8, 2022
PrintThe Boston GlobeIn Kirsten Greenidge's 'Our Daughters, Like Pillars,' family ties get tangledApril 7, 2022
VideoThe HuntingtonThe Niceties: A Conversation with the ArtistsMay 26, 2021
AudioOn the BimahTheatre Schmooze: Radical Representation, with Kimberly SeniorApril 15, 2021
PrintDaily HeraldKimberly Senior's directing career has taken her from Chicago and the suburbs to BroadwayAugust 27, 2020
PrintWashington PostListen in as Dan Rather anchors the story of his own highly theatrical lifeDan Rather's Stories of a Lifetime · August 5, 2020
VideoGoodman TheatreLive @ Five with Kimberly Senior and Miles ChongJuly 17, 2020
VideoGoodman TheatreKimberly Senior and Mary Ann Thebus on MotherhoodRapture, Blister, Burn · May 11, 2020
VideoCollaboractionCrucial Connections, Episode 2May 5, 2020
VideoPrimary StagesVirtual Master Class: Kimberly SeniorApril 20, 2020
PrintBroadwayWorldPhoto Flash: Inside the first night of Dan Rather's Stories of a LifetimeFebruary 19, 2020
PrintLowell Sun'Sweat' equity for director of Boston premiereJanuary 29, 2020
PrintDeadlineNewsman Dan Rather to tell life stories Off-Broadway for Audible recordingDan Rather's Stories of a Lifetime · January 2020
PrintAudible (newsroom)Margaret Trudeau and Diana Nyad to Share Their Stories Live and on AudibleCertain Woman of an Age · 2020
VideoHuntington Theater"Sweat"November 1, 2019
VideoMTCBella’s Legacy Now and ForeverBella Bella · September 20, 2019
VideoBroadway WorldHarvey Fierstein and Kimberly Senior explain what Bella Bella is all aboutSeptember 15, 2019
PrintBroadwayWorld (Costa Mesa)Photograph 51 Puts Overlooked Science Pioneer In Focus At South Coast RepertoryFebruary 11, 2019
VideoThe McCarterThe Niceties Behind The Scenes PreviewDecember 7, 2018
PrintCommercial Appeal'Christmas at Pemberley' a holiday treat for Jane Austen fansMiss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley · November 7, 2018
VideoMilwaukee RepKimberly Senior on “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley”October 17, 2018
AudioConversations with Ed TracyKimberly Senior: Support Group for MenJune 28, 2018
AudioMaking an ArtistYou Should Be Terrified, with guest artist Kimberly SeniorMay 2, 2018
VideoWriters TheatreInterview with Kimberly Senior, director of Buried ChildApril 27, 2018
PrintWABE'Sheltered' Shows Human Side Of WWII Rescuers At Alliance TheatreMarch 2018
AudioThat's What She SaidKimberly SeniorJanuary 3, 2018
PrintShepherd ExpressBeyond Pride and PrejudiceMiss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley · 2018
VideoWriters TheatreThe Scene: Interview with Kimberly SeniorFebruary 5, 2017
PrintAmerican TheatreA Secret Battle: ‘Other Than Honorable’ Explores Military Sexual Assault2017
AudioFeminist CrushEp. 15: Ellen Fairey and Kimberly SeniorSeptember 30, 2016
PrintAmerican TheatreKimberly Senior Is Just Getting StartedJune 24, 2016
VideoBerkeley Repertory TheatreBehind the scenes: Kimberly SeniorDisgraced · November 9, 2015
VideoWriters TheatreMARJORIE PRIME at Writers Theatre – Director InterviewMarjorie Prime · October 27, 2015
VideoChris Jones for Goodman TheatreChris Jones Interviews Playwright Ayad Akhtar & Director Kimberly Senior on "Disgraced"October 12, 2015
PrintWTTWThe 'First Contemporary American Play': Kimberly Senior on 'Disgraced'September 11, 2015
VideoGoodman TheatreDisgracedSeptember 10, 2015
PrintTheaterManiaKimberly Senior Brings Disgraced Home to Chicago in Broadway ShapeSeptember 9, 2015
VideoGoodman Theatre2015/2016 SeasonMay 19, 2015
VideoWriters TheatreTHE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK at Writers Theatre - Director InterviewThe Diary of Anne Frank · January 14, 2015
VideoGoodman TheatreDirector Kimberly Senior Talks Rapture, Blister, BurnJanuary 9, 2015
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VideoDisgraced on BroadwayDISGRACED on Broadway: Kimberly Senior on Bringing DISGRACED to Broadway and the Loving CastDisgraced · November 10, 2014
PrintThe IntervalAn Interview with Kimberly SeniorDisgraced · September 2014
VideoChicago Sun-TimesCurtain Call with Hedy Weiss: Kimberly SeniorHedda Gabler · January 9, 2014
PrintNJ.comShort Hills native Kimberly Senior directs Pulitzer-winner 'Disgraced' on Broadway2014
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VideoSeason Sneak Peek with Kimberly SeniorSeason Sneak Peek with Kimberly SeniorThe Great God Pan · August 15, 2013
VideoKimberly Senior Discusses Little GemKimberly Senior discusses Little GemApril 18, 2013
VideoNorthlight TheatreJack Magaw and Kimberly Senior on SettingThe Whipping Man · January 9, 2013
VideoLincoln Center TheaterAn interview with the author and director of DisgracedNovember 12, 2012
VideoWriters Theater video interviewAbout THE LETTERS at Writers' TheatreThe Letters · May 11, 2012
PrintTheater in ChicagoStage Directing: Kimberly Senior listens, and success follows2012
AudioTalk Theatre in ChicagoKimberly Senior and Ron OJ ParsonOld Times · October 24, 2011
VideoChicago Theater BeatKimberly Senior on Arthur Miller's All My SonsJanuary 28, 2010
AudioTheater in Chicago recordingAudio interviewThe Pillowman · 2009
TalkThe Understudy (Chicago)A Conversation with Kimberly Senior: What Would a Person Do? — with Chris Jones of the Chicago TribuneNovember 4, 2024
TalkWriters TheatreMeet Kimberly Senior, director of Every Brilliant Thing (first-rehearsal talk)October 11, 2024
TalkURI TheatreConversation Series: Kimberly Senior and Rachel WalsheMarch 4, 2021
TalkGoodman TheatreArtist Encounter: Joey Soloway & Kimberly SeniorDecember 17, 2020
TalkManhattan Theatre ClubArtists in Conversation: Harvey Fierstein + Kimberly SeniorBella Bella · October 10, 2020
SpeechPrimary StagesEinhorn Mentorship Award acceptance speech, Primary StagesMay 2018
SpeechTheatre Communications GroupAlan Schneider Award acceptance speech, TCG National ConferenceJune 24, 2016
SpeechJoseph Jefferson AwardsSpecial Jeff Award acceptance speechJune 6, 2016
SpeechAssociation for Jewish TheatreKeynote address, Association for Jewish Theatre conferenceApril 21, 2016
TalkNorthlight TheatreThe Whipping Man: Kimberly Senior's first-rehearsal introductionDecember 28, 2012