Garry Hynes founded Druid in Galway in 1975 with Marie Mullen and Mick Lally and is its Artistic Director. From 1991 to 1994 she was Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

She has also worked with The Gate Theatre in Dublin and internationally with The Royal Shakespeare Company and The Royal Court (UK), with Second Stage, Signature Theater and Manhattan Theater Club in New York, and with The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.