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

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.

  • Premiered In 2024