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