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Carys D. Coburn

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Carys D. Coburn is a writer, theatre-maker and spoken word artist based in Dublin. Carys' first plays were written for Dublin Youth Theatre; And Then He Was All in 2010 and Tarot in 2011, the first of which is available through NAYD’s Playshare programme. Carys' play Boys and Girls premiered as part of Dublin Fringe 2013, winning the Fishamble Best New Writing Award. It was also nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust Award, and for the Best Theatre Script Award at the Irish Writers’ Guild Awards (Zebbies). Carys is a collaborating writer with Malaprop Theatre, winners of the 2015 Spirit of Fringe Commission Award for Love+. Carys received an Arts Council 16x16 Emerging Artist's Bursary, as part of the 1916 Commemoration Programme and was awarded the Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary & Residency in 2016. Carys was a participant in Six in the Attic, an Irish Theatre Institute initiative, from 2017 - 2018. 

Company Jobs

Job Title Company
Company Member MALAPROP

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
BlackCatfishMusketeer Carys D. Coburn
Boys and Girls Carys D. Coburn
Briseis After the Black Carys D. Coburn
Citysong Carys D. Coburn
Dear Ireland I Frank McGuinness Feli Speaks Gina Moxley Abbie Spallen Michael West Shaun Dunne Manchán Magan Eva O'Connor Edna O'Brien Jimmy Murphy Kit de Waal Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Aoife Martyn Ursula Rani Sarma Keith James Walker Arthur Riordan Zhu Yi Mark O'Halloran Andrea Molino Pom Boyd Una McKevitt Carmel Winters John O'Donovan (2) Stacey Gregg Blindboy Boatclub Enda Walsh Deirdre Kinahan Thomas Kane Byrne Emmet Kirwan Iseult Golden Zoe Ní Riordáin Sinéad Burke Dermot Bolger Rosaleen McDonagh Sarah Hanly Karen Cogan Carys D. Coburn David Ireland John Connors Jody O'Neill Shane O'Reilly Meadhbh McHugh Nancy Harris Colm Keegan (2) Owen McCafferty Phillip McMahon Darach Mac Con Iomaire Sonya Kelly Margaret Perry Joseph O'Connor (1)
Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane Carys D. Coburn
Everything Not Saved Carys D. Coburn
Home Theatre (Ireland) Natalya O'Flaherty Finbarr Doyle Paul Mercier John Morton Shaun Dunne Feli Speaks Marc Mac Lochlainn Eva O'Connor Sorcha Fox Gavin Kostick Jeda de Brí Sharon Mannion Carys D. Coburn Fionn Foley Neil Watkins Deirdre Kinahan Clare Barrett (1) Fiona McGeown Jody O'Neill Roisin Ingle Bryan Burroughs Colin Murphy Duke Special Sonya Kelly Robbie Blake Tom Swift Louise Lewis Nancy Harris Elaine Murphy Little John Nee
Love + Breffni Holahan Carys D. Coburn Maeve O'Mahony Claire O'Reilly

Actor

Play Title Playwright
Briseis After the Black Carys D. Coburn
Home Theatre (Ireland) Eva O'Connor Sorcha Fox Gavin Kostick Sharon Mannion Fionn Foley Deirdre Kinahan Clare Barrett (1) Sonya Kelly Jody O'Neill Tom Swift Colin Murphy Louise Lewis Jeda de Brí Bryan Burroughs Nancy Harris Carys D. Coburn Neil Watkins Duke Special Elaine Murphy Little John Nee Fiona McGeown Robbie Blake Natalya O'Flaherty Roisin Ingle Finbarr Doyle Paul Mercier John Morton Shaun Dunne Feli Speaks Marc Mac Lochlainn

Music by

Play Title Playwright
Bernarda's House Veronica Coburn Federico García Lorca

Director

Play Title Playwright
Boys and Girls Carys D. Coburn

Devisor

Play Title Playwright
Jericho

Devised by MALAPROP theatre.

Dramaturg

Play Title Playwright
The Aeneid Dan Colley Virgil
Written with John Doran, Manus Halligan Aoife Leonard, Maeve O'Mahoney and Karl Quinn.