Garry Hynes is an award-winning Irish theatre director.

Background

She was born in Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon and educated at St Louis Convent, Monaghan, the Dominican Convent, Galway and University College Galway.

Druid

Garry was a co-founder of the Druid Company with Mick Lally and Maire Mullen in 1975. The three had met through the drama society of University College Galway where they studied. She was the artistic director from 1975 to 1991, and again from 1995 to date.

Productions include:

• The Year of the Hiker, DruidSynge (Galway, Edinburgh International Festival and Inis Meáin 2005; Minneapolis & Lincoln Center Festival New York 2006)
• Sharon's Grave
• Sive
• On Raftery's Hill (Royal Court Co-Production)
• The Lonesome West
• Lovers Meeting
• Conversations on a Homecoming
• Bailegangaire
• The Shaughran
• Wood of the Whispering

Abbey Theatre

Garry directed for the Abbey Theatre from 1984, and was appointed Artistic Director of the National Theatre from 1991 to 1994.

Productions include:

• King of the Castle
• The Plough and the Stars
• The Power of Darkness
• Famine
• A Whistle in the Dark
• Portia Coughlan.

Other Theatre

Ms. Hynes has also directed for, amongst others, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Exchange, Manchester, the Kennedy Center and the Royal Court Theatre, London. Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. ... Royal Exchange The Royal Exchange is an impressive nineteenth century classical building in Manchester, England. ...

• The Man of Mode
• Song of the Nightingale (Royal Shakespeare Company)
• Mr Peters' Connections (Signature Theatre, New York)
• Crimes of the Heart (Second Theatre, New York)
• My Brilliant Divorce (West End)
• Crestfall (Gate Theatre, Dublin)
• 16 Wounded (Broadway)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (Kennedy Center, Washington).
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Awards

Garry has received Honorary degree from the University of Dublin (2004), The National University of Ireland (1998) and the National Council for Education Awards (1988). The University of Dublin, located in Dublin, Ireland, was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, making it Irelands oldest university. ... The National University of Ireland (NUI) is a federal university system of constituent universities, previously called constituent colleges, and recognised colleges set up under the Irish Universities Act, 1908, and significantly amended by the Universities Act, 1997. ... The Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) is the legal successor to the National Council for Educational Awards and awards higher education awards in Ireland in the extra-university system since 2001. ...

In 1998 on Broadway, she became the first woman to receive a Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane. She is a recipient of many other Theatre Awards, including The Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Director (2002) and a Special Tribute Award for her contribution to Irish Theatre in February 2005. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a drama by Martin McDonagh. ...

On June 15th 2006 she was awarded the Freedom of the City of Galway^[1], the highest honour that the city can bestow. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ...

References

External links

• Irish Playography Profile
• Garry Hynes at the Internet Broadway Database

• Druid Theatre
• Dublin Theatre Festival Bio