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

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.