Artists

Resident playwright

Buddy Todd
(they/them)

Buddy is a multidisciplinary theatre and film artist; currently working as an actor, director, and dramaturg. Specializing in comedy and connective stories, they hold a BA in Theatre, an MFA in Arts Leadership, and an MA in Theatre and Performative Practices at University College Cork.

Associate playwrights

drew david combs
(he/him)
gal friday

drew is an actor, poet, and playwright based in Seattle. He has been a proud member of Parley since 2017, with multiple workshops of his scripts and a micro production of death in the digital age. Favorite onstage credits include Joshua in John Baxter is a Switch Hitter at the Intiman, Anton in Parley's Anton, and Luke in Theater of Possibility's Love Letters.

Asha Dore
(she/her)
associate art & marketing director
editor-in-chief, parley lit

Asha Dore is a writer and illustrator. She teaches college writing and is a speech-language pathologist. Her essays, stories, and poems have won Best of the Net in CNF and appeared in Gulf Coast, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, River Teeth, Vol. 1, Brooklyn, and elsewhere. Her newsletter can be found at writingtruth.substack.com.
Asha is a founding editor of Parley Lit. She runs a book review podcast, Totally Biased Reviews, where authors are invited to review their own books, in conversation with Asha or another Parley Lit editor.
Asha is also a visual artist, animator, editor, and a playwright. Her murals have appeared and disappeared in various cities in the Deep South and Pacific Northwest.

Nole Fields
(he/him)

Nole Fields prefers for you not to know who he is.

Dustin Hageland
(he/him)
technical producer

Dustin is a playwright and educator from the Washington and serves as Parley's Technical Producer. He received his BFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University in 2018 and his MFA in Playwriting from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2021. His play Small Box with a Revolver has been performed as part of the 2021 Big Muddy New Play Festival, the 2021 St. Lou Fringe Festival the 2022 SETC Fringe Festival, and the 2022 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival. At the beginning of pandemic he began producing virtual productions, including numerous evenings of short plays, the 2020 Big Muddy New Play Festival Online, and Parley's Proofs.

Amber Hughes
(she/her)

Amber, a proud founding member of Parley, is a versatile artist—actor, poet, and playwright. After a hiatus dedicated to raising three kids and three step-kids while building a successful career as a mental health practitioner and trauma therapist, she returns to the playwriting scene with enthusiasm. Her experiences as a parent and mental health professional infuse authenticity into her creative work.

Carol Lee
(she/her)

Carol is a playwright and illustrator. Her work has been produced by The Undergraduate Theatre Society (University of Washington), Bucknell University Department of Theatre & Dance, and Parley Productions. In her artistic practice she is interested in making do with what she has. She likes good digestion, visiting local parks, and watching movies.

Jules Marin
(she/her)

Jules has been working behind the camera since approximately age 10. She would often steal the family camcorder and come up with elaborate scripts to force her younger siblings to act out. In high school, she joined 2 drama/improv classes, becoming drama team captain and directing several plays. She also acted in several short films as part of the 48 Hour Film Project.
She has been doing freelance graphic design work for a few years, some of which includes the drag community in Bellingham.
In 2024, she suddenly got the urge to hop back into the film world, and directed/filmed/produced her own short film, Resonance, for the Horror 48HFP. She hopes to bring diversity and fresh ideas to horror, as well as comedy and drama. Her favorite directors/writers include Brit Marling, Jordan Peele, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Mike Flanagan.

Katherine Jett
(she/her)
associate producer

Katherine is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary theatre maker and performance artist. A proud member of Parley since 2018, she has workshopped full-length plays (This Pleasant Prison, The Mermaids), a solo performance, and co-mounted an interdisciplinary, covid-conscious performance promenade (Aposiopesis). As an actor, she has performed locally with Book-It, Greenstage, Seattle Immersive, Taproot, Thalia’s Umbrella, Rebel Kat, and many times with Parley Productions. Her original musical about Bigfoot, Squatch! The Musical (in collaboration with composer Adam Quillian), received its inaugural production at Centerstage Theatre in the Spring of 2017 and won a 2017 People’s Choice Gregory for Best New Play. She holds a BFA in Theatre: Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts and has trained as a performer locally with Roger Curtis and in Greece with the DUENDE company.

Susan McNally
(she/her)

Susan McNally is a filmmaker and a playwright. For her work in film and television, she received EMMY, CINE and TELLY Awards, as well as a development grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. As a playwright, she is a founding member of Parley and six of her full-length plays have been performed in Parley workshop productions. In 2023, Parley produced Sue's first radio play. Sue’s short plays have appeared at various local festivals, including Forward Flux and the Seattle Play Series.

Nelle Tankus
(she/her)

Nelle is a playwright and performer whose work explores queerness, the absurd, and metamorphosis. Her full-length work has been seen in Seattle at 12th Avenue Arts (The Untitled Play About Art School, dir. L. Nicol Cabe), The Umbrella Project (Slack Water, dir. QuiQui Dominguez), and Parley Productions (Yom Kippur, dir. Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth). Her shorter works have been seen most recently at 12 Minutes Max, Parley, and MirrorStage. She was a semi-finalist for the Jerome Fellowship (2021/2022), Playwrights Realm Scratchpad Series (2019), and the Eugene O'Neil National Playwright's Conference (2018). Most recently, she was a cohort of the 2021 María Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop. She holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts. She is based in Seattle, and is a proud member of Parley.

Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth
(she/her)
creator/managing artistic director
co-editor, parley lit

Rebecca is a Seattle-based theater artist whose plays include Skint, Cowboys With Questions, Crumbs/Migas, cherubin, Stamina, Maiden Voyage, What She Means, and Quickening. She is the co-book writer (with Evynne Hollens) of the musical Mija (music and lyrics by Anna Gilbert and Gaby Moreno), and the co-screenwriter/director of the feature-length Psyche and Cupid: A Puppet Film. Her work has been produced and/or developed by the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois, National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals, ACT Contemporary Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Latiné Musical Theatre Lab, Trial and Error Productions, Coyote REP, Lungfish, Invisible, LLC, Lucid By Proxy, and Teatro de Cámara “Hugo Carillo” in Guatemala City.
As a teaching theater artist, she’s worked with the Claire Trevor School of the Arts; the Alliance Theater; the New York Film Academy; 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.
In Parley Rebecca has established the most robust new work developmental program in the Pacific Northwest, offering unprecedented support to its playwriting associates. Through Parley, Rebecca has developed, directed, and produced more than 90 world premieres of important new plays by underrepresented writers in the last decade.
NPX (comprehensive playwriting info). MFA (Acting), U.C. Irvine; BA (English), U.C. Berkeley; Pacific Conservatory Theater