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