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

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.