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

Adaptations

Play Title Playwright
BÁN Carys D. Coburn Federico García Lorca

Actor

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

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.