Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth is a Seattle-based playwright and director, the creator and managing artistic director of Parley (https://www.parleyproductions.com) and co-editor the lit mag Parley Lit (https://www.parleylit.com).
At twenty, Tourino Collinsworth made her professional acting debut at the rebuilt Globe Theatre in London and spent fifteen years performing in regional theaters across the United States. As a teaching theater artist, she’s worked with the Claire Trevor School of the Arts; the Alliance Theater in Atlanta; the New York Film Academy in Soho; Seattle University; Meadows School of the Arts at SMU; and Freehold’s Ensemble Training Intensive, among others. For three consecutive years, she also made weekly trips to Gig Harbor to work with incarcerated people at the Washington Correctional Center for Women as part of the Engaged Theater Residency. Her plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and elsewhere at venues like the American Theater of Actors, the Barrow Group, 12th Avenue Arts, West of Lenin, and Book-It Repertory Theatre. She is also the co-book writer (with Evynne Hollens) of Mija: A New Musical (2023 NAMT Festival of New Musicals, Kleban Prize finalist, Eugene O'Neill National Musical Theater Conference semi-finalist, Latiné Musical Theatre Lab Reading selection,); and the co-screenwriter/director of the feature-length Psyche and Cupid: A Puppet Film.

In Parley, Tourino Colllinsworth has established the most robust new work developmental program in the Pacific Northwest, offering unprecedented support to its playwriting associates. Through Parley, she has developed, directed, and produced more than 80 world premieres of important new plays by underrepresented writers in the last decade.

MFA (Acting), U.C. Irvine; BA (English), U.C. Berkeley; Pacific Conservatory Theater