Background
Hynes was born in Ballaghadereen, Roscommon County and educated at Saint Louis Convent at Monaghan, the Dominican Convent at Galway, and National University of Ireland Galway.
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Garry HYNES
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Dominican College, Galw"ay, University College Galway.
Career
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. Hynes directed, the company’s critically acclaimed production of all six of John Millington Synge’s plays premièred at the Galway Arts Festival in 2005 and has since toured to Dublin, Edinburgh, Inis Meáin, Minneapolis and New New York
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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 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/ Electricity Supply Board 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.
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Ireland