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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 Pom Boyd Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Stacey Gregg Keith James Walker Thomas Kane Byrne Mark O'Halloran Sinéad Burke Una McKevitt Frank McGuinness Dermot Bolger Blindboy Boatclub Feli Speaks Carys D. Coburn Emmet Kirwan Gina Moxley Meadhbh McHugh Rosaleen McDonagh Abbie Spallen Michael West Colm Keegan (2) David Ireland Phillip McMahon Jody O'Neill Shaun Dunne Darach Mac Con Iomaire Manchán Magan Sonya Kelly Eva O'Connor Margaret Perry Edna O'Brien Joseph O'Connor (1) Aoife Martyn Arthur Riordan Andrea Molino John O'Donovan (2) Carmel Winters Deirdre Kinahan Enda Walsh Zoe Ní Riordáin Iseult Golden Karen Cogan Sarah Hanly John Connors Shane O'Reilly Nancy Harris Owen McCafferty Jimmy Murphy Ursula Rani Sarma Zhu Yi Kit de Waal
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 Natalya O'Flaherty Fiona McGeown Finbarr Doyle Roisin Ingle Paul Mercier John Morton Bryan Burroughs Shaun Dunne Sonya Kelly Duke Special Robbie Blake Feli Speaks Tom Swift Marc Mac Lochlainn Louise Lewis Eva O'Connor Nancy Harris 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

Actor

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

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.