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 with themes often around gender, queerness, diaspora, fascism, metatheatrical play, and human sexuality. She is fascinated by what turns people on and pulls them apart. Zoe was the associate artistic director of the The Firebird Project from 2017-2026. She is a current MFA Playwriting Candidate at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.
Her play Lay The Bent To The Bonny Broom was a 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.
UPCOMING: Her play Hail Mary will receive a workshop as part of the Iowa New Play Festival in May, 2026.