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