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

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.