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