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