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

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.