Home | About | Contact Us

The Arts Council Playography Na Gaeilge

People

Carys D. Coburn

-

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

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.