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