Garry Hynes

Garry Hynes (born June 10, 1953) is an Irish theatre director. She holds the distinction of being the first woman to win the prestigious Tony Award for direction of a play.

Hynes was born in Ballaghadereen, County Roscommon and educated at St. Louis Convent at Monaghan, the Dominican Convent at Galway, and NUI Galway.

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 NUI Galway 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.

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."

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).

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