Garry Hynes

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Garry Hynes is an award-winning Irish theatre director.

1 Background
2 Druid
3 Abbey Theatre
4 Other Theatre
5 Awards
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Background

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

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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[edit] 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).

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.

On June 15th 2006 she was awarded the Freedom of the City of Galway^[1], the highest honour that the city can bestow.