Tori Rice is a California-based playwright, podcaster (Hey Playwright), teaching artist (Playwrights Project and CoTA) and actress. She has enjoyed collaborations with Scripps Ranch Theatre, New Play Café; San Diego Fringe Festival; SMoCA (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Lit Lounge); Spark! Powerhouse Theatre, Venice, CA; New Perspective Festival, as well as site-specific and immersive theatre in cafes and courtrooms. Contests / Development: Dragon Eggs / Dragon Productions (BOX OF TEETH, reading), Scripteaser's Script Tease of Short Plays 2020 (BOX OF TEETH, honorable mention), 2019 (DEVIL-IN-A-BOX, First Place) and 2018 (LIKE IVY, First Place); SRT's Out on a Limb 2019 (THE HUNT(s), 2nd place audience favorite) and 2014 (TINY); New Perspective Play Festival  (BOTTLED IN, BABY). SISTERS IN THE SYSTEM, her interactive play of two young women in foster care, was commissioned by Playwrights Project and has been performed at the California Western School of Law courtroom, SDSU, Cal-State San Marcos, San Diego Mesa College, and Palomar College.

She is co-host of the podcast, Hey Playwright, with Mabelle Reynoso. She is also a founding member of the San Francisco-based Club Solo, as well as a former ensemble member of the groups New American Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) and Aurora Mime Theatre (Tempe, AZ). Favorite acting roles include her critically acclaimed one-person show, THE MORE MEN WEIGH (Edmonton Fringe); STRAIGHT TALK (LA, Odyssey Theatre); THE HAMLETMACHINE (ASU and Emporia State University); STEEL MAGNOLIAS (Winterstock Regional Theatre, AZ, Best Supporting Actress), and understudy at SD REP for RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN; SEX WITH STRANGERS; and ROZ & RAY. She has appeared in dozens of commercials and films.