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

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.