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