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

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.