Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth is the granddaughter of Spanish and Cuban immigrants who met in New York and eventually settled in East Los Angeles. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (phi beta kappa, 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, and West of Lenin.

Tourino Collinsworth’s company Parley is a producing organization dedicated to the long-term development of new plays. In Parley, Tourino Collinsworth has established the most robust new work developmental program in the Pacific Northwest. Now in its tenth season, Parley offers unprecedented support to its playwriting associates. Through Parley, Tourino Collinsworth has developed, directed, and produced more than 77 world premieres of important new plays by underrepresented Seattle 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.”