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