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

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.