Rebecca Touriño Collinsworth

Around the periphery of a spare playing area sit six people, heads obscured by white tea towels. Together, they relive two critical days in the history of a Texas family: Pecos in 1923, Amarillo in 1935. While the greatest dust storm of the twentieth century pounds the panhandle, they're forced come to terms with what they did to invite disaster.

Mija is a new musical with music, lyrics and lyric translations by Latin-Grammy winning Guatemalan singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno, music and lyrics by Portland singer-songwriter Anna Gilbert, and book by Broadway and YouTube artist Evynne Hollens and Seattle playwright Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth. Inspired by the miraculous true story of a Latin American woman and her quest to reconnect with her roots, Mija is a deeply personal story about motherhood, survival, love, loss and the complexity of family, inspired by two women’s real-life experiences.

Leaving behind her life in the U.S., Luisa embarks on a quest to rediscover her Guatemalan roots, but is blindsided by an unexpected, life-threatening pregnancy that sets in motion a perilous chain of events defining her future. Eighteen years later in Oregon, Gabriela aches for grown-up life to start; but first, she seeks to uncover secrets from a complex past the adults around her keep hidden.

Spanning two languages and continents, occurring two decades apart, these storylines unroll in breathless simultaneity, intertwining in surprising ways. Before spreading her wings, each woman must come to terms with the thorny layers of her history, and on the way question her relationship to family, identity, and choice. Told as a bilingual story through stirring music and a witty, heartfelt book, Mija moves us to hold tight to the ones we love.

At a high-tech fertility clinic in the near future, Paloma and Merrit await the results of a suite of tests to determine the viability of a pregnancy. They're about to find out what it means to know too much.

In a tunnel beneath the Soledad Mission in California, a group of people are drinking wine with a special ingredient. They’re all in thrall to George, a charismatic leader with an uncanny ability to skirt death. Then a cowboy interrupts their secret ritual with questions – about cattle, real estate, orgies, even the Talking Heads. Inspired equally by The Bacchae, cults, and the Doomsday Clock, Cowboys With Questions examines the pleasures and costs of surviving in uncertain times.

In a fictional Latin American country, two hungry children are orphaned by a U.S.- backed coup. Fifteen years later they return, a modern-day Hansel and Gretel, to follow what migas they can in search of their father. Revisiting the scene of the violence they survived, they discover a landscape of secrets and sacrifice they are only beginning to understand.

Delivered through compact and electric dialogue, and leavened with compassion and even humor, Crumbs / Migas is a play about the grief and grace we encounter on the way home.

"Bring me my son or this storm will kill you all."
Cora, a midwife and herbalist, is in the wrong place at the wrong time. In search of her long-lost son, Cora arrives in a Puritan settlement in 1652 during the most destructive storm in a century. When she's thrown in jail under suspicion of witchcraft, she demands to see her child--a man the settlers call the Monster of Connecticut. Instead, she meets Miranda, a Puritan on the verge of childbirth, sent in to extract a confession and save Cora's soul. But neither Cora nor Miranda is exactly what she seems.
​In lively conversation with The Tempest, cherubin takes on freedom, illusion, and agency through two of Shakespeare’s most under-explored characters.

Penelope’s heroic husband has been away from home for nearly twenty years, while Penelope's been running his estate, raising his college-bound son, and winning acclaim for writing an important book about him called The Odyssey. It’s all going well for Penelope, until the long awaited, battle-weary subject of her book returns home, ready to take his life – and hers – back. Featuring a fraught artistic process, erotic jealousy, and a blow to the head, Maiden Voyage is a dramatic departure from the ancient story you thought you knew.

A woman re-acquaints herself with her now-famous college roommate, a self-help celebrity, and tries to get her support for a housing initiative.

Gemma and Topher - a broken-up long-term couple - arrive, separately, at a birthday party in Central Park. These NY Public Library employees and their colleague are unprepared for Sid - an employee at Amazon - and his party plans.

A writer in the very act of writing a play, five children trying to take over the story, and the mysterious old woman they all love. Battles of will. Games of tag. Existential crises. Inexplicable cabbages. What She Means is about memory, childhood, grief, and the bewildering process of creation.

QUICKENING is about abortion. Or rather, QUICKENING is a play about women that takes place in the waiting room of an abortion clinic.

In writing this play, I was determined, first and foremost, to air a taboo. One in four women in the United States has had an abortion. Forty-three percent of American women will have one before the age of 45. It’s a common enough experience. But it’s not something we talk about, and the majority of women don’t feel comfortable owning up to the choice.

With this play, I hoped to inspire some honest dialogue. I wanted to write about the real experience of the event and its aftermath: the absurdity, the coded language, and the ambivalence. I also wanted to reveal the layers of the choice – how the perception of outsiders (and their support or condemnation) often resides in tricky details involving the number of gestational weeks or the circumstances of impregnation.

I wrote the play in 2004, and it takes place in the very late 1990's, so I initially wondered about its relevance today. But the overturning of Roe v.Wade, combined with my own experience of pregnancy and parenthood, have made issues of choice more relevant than ever.

QUICKENING tackles a political and moral issue -- some might say the quintessential political and moral issue -- with a rejection of polarizing absolutes. In eschewing the heavy-handed "will she or won't she" debate typical of most dramas that address the difficult subject of abortion, this play instead investigates the impact of this choice on the women who make it.

Community is at the center of The Naked Eye Planets, a drama following ten residents of a small apartment complex on the cusp of a rare astronomical phenomenon. Families implode, love is lost and found, and intimate crimes revealed as strangers come together around the broken fountain in their courtyard and realize they aren’t as alone as they imagined.