Garry Hynes

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Garry Hynes (b. June 10, 1953) is an Irish theatre director.

Hynes was born in Ballaghadereen, Roscommon County and educated at St. Louis Convent at Monaghan, the Dominican Convent at Galway, and the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG).

She was a co-founder of the Druid Theatre Company with Mick Lally and Maire Mullen in 1975 after meeting through the drama society of NUIG where they studied. the Druid's was the artistic director from 1975 to 1991, and again from 1995 to date. Hynes directed for the Abbey Theatre from 1984 and was its artistic director from 1991 to 1994, and also the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Exchange, Manchester, the Kennedy Center and the Royal Court Theatre, London.

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[edit] Stage productions

Druid Theatre Company
Abbey Theatre
  • King of the Castle
  • The Plough and the Stars
  • The Power of Darkness
  • Famine
  • A Whistle in the Dark
  • Portia Coughlan
Other
  • 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).
  • Translations Juno NY City Center Encores series.

[edit] Awards and honours

Hynes 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 15 June 2006 she was awarded the Freedom of the City of Galway, its highest bestowed honour.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Freedom of the City for Garry Hynes Saoirse na Cathrach do Ghearóidín Ní Eidhin. Galway City Council (16 June 2006). Retrieved on 2008-05-28.

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