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