Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (BA), the University of California, Irvine (MFA), and the Pacific Conservatory Theatre. At twenty, she 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 Selection, Latiné Musical Theatre Lab Table Reading selection, Eugene O'Neill National Musical Theater Conference semi-finalist); and the co-screenwriter/director of the feature-length Psyche and Cupid: A Puppet Film.

In Parley (now in its tenth season), Rebecca has established the most robust new work developmental program in the Pacific Northwest, offering unprecedented support to its playwriting associates. Through Parley, Tourino Collinsworth has developed, directed, and produced more than 75 world premieres of important new plays by underrepresented writers in the last decade. As The Dramatist attests, “[Parley’s] founding, continuance, and expanding reputation is largely due to one person. That artist is Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth, an indefatigable playwright, director, and theatre-maker.”

Rebecca lives happily in Seattle with her husband and two children.