These included Focus Theatre, The Children's T Company, the Project Theatre Company, Red Kettle, Druid Theatre, TEAM and Field Day.

Garry Hynes, first artistic director of Druid Theatre, has the distinction of being the first woman to win a Tony Award for direction.

This troupe, the Field Day company and such other top theater groups as the Druid Theater of Galway will be gathering for the Dublin theater festival that begins tomorrow.

"The Beauty Queen of Leenane" by the Druid Theater of Galway, Ireland, moves into the Atlantic two days after "Mojo" vacates the theater, and is to begin performances in February.

In 1991, he directed a well received production of Cheapside by David Allen at the Druid Theatre, Galway, about the rivalry between Shakespeare and his contemporary Robert Greene.

A Druid Theater Company/ Royal Court Theater production presented by the Atlantic Theater Company, Neil Pepe, artistic director; Hilary Hinckle, managing director.

"Irish culture is operating as a matter of course internationally," said Garry Hynes, the founder and director of the Druid Theater in Galway.

He worked with An Taibhdhearc and Druid Theatres and became the first manager of Galway Arts Centre, before co-founding Macnas with Ollie Jennings.

Tom Murphy (born 1935) is an Irish dramatist who has worked closely with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and with Druid Theatre, Galway.

Garry Hynes, whose Druid Theater first staged Mr. McDonagh's work, won the award by bringing the dark comedy to Broadway.