Druid’s artistic director Garry Hynes has been nominated in the Best Director Category in the 2012 UK Theatre Awards for the company’s ambitious DruidMurphy production.
Theatre Awards UK, organised by the Theatrical Management Association, honours creative excellence and the outstanding achievement seen on and off stage within the UK. DruidMurphy was presented at the Hampstead Theatre, London and at the Oxford Playhouse in Oxford in June and August.
Other nominees in the Best Director category are Joe Harmston for The Father by August Strindberg adapted by Laurie Slade, a Belgrade Theatre production; and Dominic Hill for Krapp’s Last Tape/Footfalls by Samuel Beckett, a Citizens Theatre production.
The Theatre Awards UK 2012 will be presented at a lunchtime ceremony on Sunday October 28 at the Guildhall in the City of London.
