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

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.