Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth is a Seattle-based playwright and director. As a teaching artist, she’s worked with Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Alliance Theater, NYFA, Seattle University, and SMU; she also spent several years working with prisoners at the Washington Correctional Center for Women as part of the Engaged Theatre Residency. Her plays have been produced in NYC, LA, and Seattle. She is also the co-book writer (with Evynne Hollens) of Mija: A New Musical (2023 NAMT Festival of New Musicals, Latiné Musical Theatre Lab 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. Rebecca is the creator and managing artistic director of Parley, through which she has developed, directed, and produced more than 80 world premieres by underrepresented writers in the last decade. [NPX]