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

ACTOR

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

DIRECTOR

Play Title Playwright
Boys and Girls Carys D. Coburn

DRAMATURG

Play Title Playwright
The Aeneid Dan Colley Virgil
Written with John Doran, Manus Halligan Aoife Leonard, Maeve O'Mahoney and Karl Quinn.

DEVISOR

Play Title Playwright
Jericho

Devised by MALAPROP theatre.

MUSIC BY

Play Title Playwright
Bernarda's House Veronica Coburn Federico García Lorca