WRITERS.
Coley Campany and Robyne Parrish met at the Labyrinth Theater Intensive Ensemble in NYC during the summer of 2014. While there, they developed a deep bond through creative artistic expression. It wasn't until a personal revelation on Facebook a year later that they realized how much they had in common. A post about multiple pregnancy losses inspired a private conversation between the two women. They both had been writing scenes, monologues, poetry, etc as a way to cope with their silent losses. Robyne and Coley expressed a desire to create a play about pregnancy loss and began to share what they had written individually. Once their stories were combined, they began to see that there was a powerful story to tell. Coley and Robyne deeply desire to speak about their pregnancy losses so that others feel the relief of hearing their own story told, or feel empowered to tell their own.
Coley Campany is a Southern American writer, actress, dancer, director, and producer. Born and raised in Mississippi, she began her career as a professional dancer with Ballet Memphis and New Ballet Ensemble in Memphis, TN. After dance injuries, several miscarriages, and two late-term abortions, Coley began to look for other ways to create. She moved to New York City and found her artistic community while training with the Labyrinth Intensive Ensemble, before eventually planting roots in Atlanta, Georgia.
In addition to the play, Coley has created a dance film called Still, Birth., as a way to further engage the discussion around pregnancy loss and women's reproductive rights. As a producer, her credits include Joan's Teeth starring Kathleen Turner and A Skosh Askew. Coley can also be seen in film and television including Candy, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Creepshow, The First Lady, NCIS: NOLA, The Resident, Loving, Watchmen, and Hulu's Mike, in which she portrayed Joan Rivers. Her film Third, in which she stars, recently had its world premiere at the Atlanta Film Festival, and her film Clean Hands will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Coley supports and recommends the grassroots non-profit organization 601 For Period Equity, based in Vicksburg/Jackson, MS. The organization has donated over 500 care packages to women's shelters, schools, community organizations, and menstruating people in need across Mississippi. @coleycampany
Robyne Parrish is the new Artistic Director Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre in Arrow Rock, MO.
Robyne is an award-winning theatre artist, educator, director, playwright and producer who combines creative practice and innovative leadership to build spaces of curiosity, deep connection and joyful collaboration.
As a director, Robyne’s has helmed wildly imaginative approaches to classic and contemporary plays and musicals; deep investment in new work; commitment to innovative community collaboration and powerful programming. Her theatrical direction has been celebrated as “magic making” in theatres ad college programs across the country. Robyne is committed to diverse representation across age, gender and race both on stage and off.
As a performer, Robyne has worked extensively off Broadway and throughout the regions. She is both AEA and SAG-AFTRA actor and has a wealth of experience in film and tv, commercials and print. She spent her early days in NYC training as an assistant to the company manager of Broadways WICKED and of course, building a brand-new classic theatre company in New York City, Sonnet Repertory Theatre, INC. - which flourished for nearly fifteen seasons.
As an educator, Robyne’s initiatives are celebrated and continue to thrive wherever they have been planted. Her private acting classes have boasted digital and multimedia presentations. Her work as an adjunct professor spans thirteen years. Her wealth of experience in education stretches decades long and includes after school initiatives, professional theatre programs and masterclasses, summer camps, conservatory and training grounds with renowned children’s theatres. Elementary school to College, Robyne has done it all.
As a producer and a playwright, Robyne presents exciting work as a playwright and as a screenwriter on a regular basis. Her short film, The Day Elvis Died, shot on location in PA in April of this year. She was recently awarded an all-expense paid two-week Playwriting symposium in Italy by the Keenan Institute and continues to develop and hone her skills in this arena when time allows.
ROBYNE PARRISH (Director/Actor/Playwright) Actor/Director/Writer in NYC – Fresh from a lengthy run in the infamous Off-Broadway production of Sleep No More as Hecate, PIB and Tiny Town.
Actor: Recent: Lifetime Movie: Kidnapped by a Killer; the Heather Robinson Story with Steve Guttenberg as Doctor Dahl (June 2025), Law and Order, A Man Called Otto with Tom Hanks, Directed by Marc Forster (Christmas 2022), The Crowded Room Apple TV, (2023), Gossip Girl streaming on HBO Max, Feature Nobody Wants to Shoot a Woman, opposite Tina Benko and starring Max Casella (in post), Feature Help Me, Hep You, opposite Richard Kind, and Borderland the Opera Directed by Mia Walker/Written by Natalie Elizabeth Weiss. Off Broadway at The York, The Mint, Project Y, Out of the Box, Indieworks, NYMF, Musicals Tonight!, The Chain and Sonnet Rep. Regional: Mother in Ragtime (Flint Rep), Matilda as Mrs. Wormwood (Virginia Stage), The Dino Musical as Carlotta (The Arden), Steel Magnolias as M'Lynn (Theatre Raleigh), The Next Fairy Tale (Pittsburgh CLO), The Revolutionists as Marie (Maine Public Theatre) and more!
Recent Directing: 9 to 5 at West Virginia University, Misery at the Gilbert Theatre, Clue at the West Virginia Public Theatre, A Man of No Importance, Violet and Grey Gardens at Front Porch Theatricals in Pittsburgh; The Sound of Music, Urinetown and The Carols at Gilbert Theatre, Hamlet and The Seagull at Seton Hill University, Mumburger and 4.48 Psychosis at Off the Wall Pittsburgh and Steel Magnolias with the Great American Melodrama. Off and Off-Off Directing credits include: Musicals Tonight!, The Chain, NYICF, NY Artists Unlimited, Sonnet Rep, 79th Street Workshop/Incite Productions and her play, Still, Birth. through a NYFA grant with the Chain Theatre NYC, NYTF (nominated for Best Play), and at the Rogue Theatre Festival. Robyne is the former AD of the Gilbert serving 2012-2017.
Playwright/Screenwriter: Robyne’s short film, The Day Elvis Died, shot on location this April 2025 in PA. She returned to OBW this past fall to direct her new play, Tin Church (her first full length commissioned play) with Off the Wall NYC. Her play, Still, Birth. – a play about pregnancy loss – was recently produced through a NYFA grant with the Chain Theatre NYC; at the New York Theatre Festival (nominated for Best Play), and at the Rogue Theatre Festival in NYC. Parrish is a member of the Dramatist Guild and writer of the award-winning series web series Peri-Street and the short film What If I Were You. Her plays have been featured in Swan Day Festival in Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Underground play fest, as well as the Chain Play festival, the Gilbert play Festival and Incite Productions.
Artistic: Current: Artistic Director of Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre in MO. Founding Artistic Director of Sonnet Repertory Theatre Inc. NYC; former Artistic Director Gilbert Theatre, NC and assistant to the Company Manager, WICKED on Broadway. Founding Artistic Director of Sonnet Repertory Theatre Inc. NYC. Adjunct Theatre Professor at FTCC and private coach with NYC Parrish and Co. BFA in Drama UNCSA and MFA Graduate candidate in Theatre and Pedagogy at PPU. WVU Masters in Theatre 2025. Alumnus: Labyrinth Theatre Intensive Ensemble 2014 and Double Edge Theatre. Ensemble member Russian Arts Theatre NHYC/Actors Equity/SAG-AFTRA/Dramatist Guild. More at www.robyneparrish.com. IG @Robyne-Parrish