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

Actor

Play Title Playwright
Briseis After the Black Carys D. Coburn
Home Theatre (Ireland) Sharon Mannion Bryan Burroughs Fionn Foley Duke Special Deirdre Kinahan Robbie Blake Clare Barrett (1) Jody O'Neill Sonya Kelly Colin Murphy Tom Swift Louise Lewis Jeda de Brí Carys D. Coburn Nancy Harris Neil Watkins Elaine Murphy Fiona McGeown Little John Nee Roisin Ingle Natalya O'Flaherty Finbarr Doyle Paul Mercier John Morton Shaun Dunne Feli Speaks Marc Mac Lochlainn Eva O'Connor Sorcha Fox Gavin Kostick

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.