Name Garry Hynes Role Theatre Director | Education NUI Galway | |
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Awards Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Director Nominations Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play Similar People Marie Mullen, Mick Lally, Martin McDonagh, Tom Murphy, Aaron Monaghan | ||
Organizations founded Druid Theatre Company | ||
Interview with garry hynes artistic director with druid theatre galway
Garry Hynes (born 10 June 1953) is an Irish theatre director. She was the first woman to win the prestigious Tony Award for direction of a play.
Contents
- Interview with garry hynes artistic director with druid theatre galway
- Theater talk garry hynes and marie mullen on the cripple of inishmaan
- Biography
- DruidSynge
- Awards and honours
- References
Theater talk garry hynes and marie mullen on the cripple of inishmaan
Biography
Hynes was born in Ballaghadereen, County Roscommon, and educated at St. Louis Convent at Monaghan, the Dominican Convent at Galway, and U.C.G..
She is a co-founder of the Druid Theatre Company with Mick Lally and Marie Mullen in 1975 after meeting through the drama society of U.C.G. where they studied. She was Druid's 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.
She is the civil partner of film producer Martha O'Neill.
DruidSynge
Hynes directed DruidSynge, the company’s critically acclaimed production of all six of John Millington Synge’s plays that premièred at the Galway Arts Festival in 2005 and has since toured to Dublin, Edinburgh, Inis Meáin, Minneapolis and New York. DruidSynge has been described by Charles Isherwood of The New York Times as "the highlight not just of my theatre going year but of my theatre going life" and by The Irish Times as "one of the greatest achievements in the history of Irish theatre."
Awards and honours
Hynes has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Dublin (2004), The National University of Ireland, Galway (1998) and the National Council for Education Awards (1988).
In 1998 she won the Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the first woman to receive the award.
She is a recipient of many other Theatre Awards, including The Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Director (2002) and a The Irish Times 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.