Making Waves Week 4A: Brian Dang

Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (BA, English), the University of California, Irvine (MFA, Acting), and the Pacific Conservatory Theatre. At twenty, she made her professional acting debut as Hero in Much Ado About Nothing at the rebuilt Globe Theatre in London, and she has since acted in regional theaters all over the United States. As a teaching artist, she’s worked with the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at UC Irvine; the Alliance Theater in Atlanta; the New York Film Academy in Soho; Seattle University; Meadows School of the Arts at SMU; Freehold Theatre Studio/Lab; Freehold’s Ensemble Training Intensive; and she served for three years as Resident Playwright at the Washington Correctional Center for Women as part of the Engaged Theater Residency, working with prisoners. Her plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and elsewhere at venues such as the American Theatre of Actors, Center Stage, the Barrow Group, and ACT. As a director, she has helmed over 70 world premieres in the last seven years alone. She is the Creator and Artistic Director of Parley, a playwrights’ group, where she mentors the development of new works by gifted local writers.

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