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The term parley derives from the French verb parler: to speak Historically, a parley was a meeting between adversaries in order to negotiate an end to battle. To signal a willingness to talk peaceably, armies would run up a white flag.
Writing is a solitary act, and isolated creatives can become defensive. By committing to an ongoing process of creation, feedback, and production, we surrender the lone struggle and move forward together. |
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Vulnerability on the internet. Forever.
Our popular web series is back
with episode 4! Here's how it works
Busy playwrights are given a prompt designed to technically challenge them. They have one week to submit their work. Mere days later, a few of Parley's favorite actors read the scenes "cold" during a live-streamed YouTube broadcast. Proofs: Heating Things Up
created by Dustin Hageland & Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth
September 23, 2023 8 pm Pacific live-streaming on our YouTube channel (right here) |
Musicians labor over études.
Dancers return endlessly to the barre. Actors put themselves through class after class. Artistic disciplines require practice to develop -- and maintain -- technique. Why should playwriting be any different? 
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Storytelling is a performance. Parley's brand-new literary magazine, Parley Lit, will be available online in September and will feature poetry, drama, documentary, and performance from a curated selection of writers we dig. 
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Release date: September 25 |
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Is your family in crisis? Do you feel like your roof is caving in? Is your relationship to living in this country too painful to parse? Is your family history obscured, yet strangely present? Do you feel like you’re breaking? |
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Parley's artistic director was interviewed by the Seattle Times. Read the article here.
Parley's production of Dirty Beasts was reviewed by Drama in the Hood. Read that review here. Our production of Maiden Voyage was reviewed by the Seattle Times. Read that review here. Parley's artistic director was interviewed for The Mumble, an international theatre journal. Read that interview here. Our production of The Oysterman's House was reviewed by Drama in the Hood. Read that review here. Our co-production of Gills! Gills! Gills! was reviewed by Drama in the Hood. Read that review here. |
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Go Inside the Play / Dramaturgy
Dramaturg Julieta Vitullo discusses the inspiration and main elements of the play in this engaging video study. This dramaturgical presentation introduces the historical events that served as inspiration for the fictional country of Kantuta Rica in Crumbs/Migas, and provides a quick refresher on the Brothers Grimm’s Hansel and Gretel, which the play rewrites as a modern tale. |
Crumbs/Migas playwright Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth and director Kelly Kitchens (A Christmas Carol) come together to discuss their collaboration on this new work and much more in this ACTLocal Playwright Series panel. The hour includes one of the play’s scenes as performed during a cast reading and audience Q&A. Crumbs/Migas Synopsis In a fictional Latin American country, two hungry children are orphaned by a U.S.-backed coup. Fifteen years later they return, a modern-day Hansel and Gretel, to follow what migas they can in search of their father. Revisiting the scene of the violence they survived, they discover a landscape of secrets and sacrifice they are only beginning to understand. Delivered through compact and electric dialogue, and leavened with compassion and even humor, Crumbs/Migas is a play about the grief and grace we encounter on the way home. |
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Produced by ACT Theatre and eSe Teatro, we're proud to temporarily feature this panel discussion that includes Parley Associate Playwright Julieta Vitullo, Visiting Resident Playwright Rose Cano, and Artistic Director Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth. |
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