Garry Hynes

January 9, 2024
Theatre Director

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Garry Hynes
Full Name Garry Hynes
Occupation Theatre Director
Date Of Birth Jun 10, 1953(1953-06-10)
Age 71
Birthplace Ballaghaderreen
Country Ireland
Birth City County Roscommon
Horoscope Gemini

Garry Hynes Biography

Name Garry Hynes
Birthday Jun 10
Birth Year 1953
Place Of Birth Ballaghaderreen
Home Town County Roscommon
Birth Country Ireland
Birth Sign Gemini
Siblings Jerome Hynes
Spouse Martha O'Neill

Garry Hynes is one of the most popular and richest Theatre Director who was born on June 10, 1953 in Ballaghaderreen, County Roscommon, Ireland. Garry Hynes (born 10 June 1953) is an Irish theatre director from Ireland. Her first role was to receive the famous Tony Award for direction of an entire play.

Hynes received honorary doctorates at the University of Dublin (2004), The National University of Ireland, Galway (1998) and the National Council for Education Awards (1988).

On 15 June 2006 she was awarded the Freedom of the City of Galway, its highest bestowed honour.

In 2017, award-winning artist Vera Klute (b.1981, Salzkotten, Germany) was commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland to create a portrait of Hynes as part of the 2015 Hennessey Portrait Prize. The bust, made of porcelain, concrete and timber (with a dimension of 164cm x 54cm x 45cm), was unveiled to the public in April 2017 and is currently on display as part of the Gallery’s National Portrait Collection.

She has been awarded numerous different Theatre Awards, including The Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Director (2002) as well as The Irish Times Special Tribute Award for her contributions to Irish Theatre in February 2005.

Garry Hynes Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Theatre Director
House Living in own house.

Garry Hynes is one of the richest Theatre Director from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Garry Hynes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She co-founded the Druid Theatre Company with Mick Lally and Marie Mullen in 1975 after having met by way of the drama club at U.C.G. where they were studying. The Druid’s artistic director was her from 1975 to 1991 and from 1995 to this day. Hynes directed the Abbey Theatre from 1984 and was the artistic director of the Abbey Theatre from 1991 until 1994 and also for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Exchange, Manchester, the Kennedy Center and the Royal Court Theatre, London.

In 1998, she received her the Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane as the first woman to win the honor.

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.”

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Who is Garry Hynes Dating?

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