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

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.