Zoe Senese-Grossberg (she/her/hers) is a Brooklyn based writer and director. As an artist, Zoe is attracted to intimate relationships but grand stories. Much of her work revolve around historic subject matter ranging in time periods from Medieval England to the near future. Themes are often around Jewish identity and diaspora, queerness, gender, coming of age, and human sexuality. She is fascinated by what turns people on and pulls them apart. Zoe is the current associate artistic director of the The Firebird Project.
Recent work includes: BOY MY GREATNESS (world premiere March 2024, regional tour September 2024), if i live until i be a man (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2024), Bedfellows (Finalist for the Rootstock Reading Series, Semi-Finalist for the National Playwriting Contest, 2025), and Frankenstein (world premiere March 2025 at The Firebird Project). Her play Lay The Bent To The Bonny Broom is a current finalist for the National Jewish Play Project. Her playwriting has received recognition from organizations such as the Eugene O’Neill Center, Penguin Random House, Good Apples Collective, WP Theater, and YoungArts.
She has worked as a teaching artist at Firebird Youth Theater, New Voices Middle School through NIA Community Services, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She has taught playwriting classes in an independent capacity as well as worked as a freelance playwriting tutor and monologue coach. Zoe has a great passion for engaging young people with the world of theater and hopes she can give them the gifts so many wonderful teachers gave to her throughout her education.
Zoe is also a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.