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

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.