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

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.