Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Druid has been touring to America since 1986 to great acclaim, most memorably in 1998 for their historic Broadway run of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which won four Tony Awards including Best Actress for Druid co-founder Marie Mullen and Best Director for fellow Druid co-founder Garry Hynes, the first woman to win the Tony for Best Director.

Druid’s other US tours include The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh (1999), DruidSynge (2006), The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh (2009), The New Electric Ballroom by Enda Walsh (2009), The Silver Tassie by Seán O’Casey (2011), Penelope by Enda Walsh (2011), The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh (2011), DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy (2012), DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V (2015), The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh (2017), Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (2017, 2018), DruidShakespeare: Richard III (2019), and DruidO’Casey (2023).

Druid: DruidO’Casey: Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, The Last Return, The Seagull, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Sive, King of the Castle, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, Brigit. 

Other theatre credits include: One Good Turn, Jimmy’s Hall, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Aristocrats, The House, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (Abbey Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, A View from the Bridge, Wuthering Heights, My Cousin Rachel, The Threepenny Opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Enemy of the People (Gate Theatre); The Enemy Within (An Grianán Theatre). 

Screen credits include: The Last Duel, Valhalla, Miss Scarlet and The Duke, Mirage, Citizen Lane, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Vikings, The Flag, Trial of the Century, The Inquiry, The Borgias. 

Awards include: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Special Tribute Award, Best Ensemble (The Last Return), Best Supporting Actor (One Good Turn, The Enemy Within); Fantàstik Film Festival Best Actor (Mirage); Riurau Film Festival, Best Actor (Mirage).

Aaron is a member of the Druid Ensemble. 

Druid: DruidO’Casey: Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, Three Short Comedies by Sean O’Casey, Once Upon a Bridge, The Cherry Orchard, Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Shelter, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, Penelope, The Playboy of the Western World, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Empress of India, The Year of the Hiker, The Walworth Farce, DruidSynge. 

Other theatre credits include: Super-Bogger, Emerald Germs, A Christmas Carol, The Tinkers Curse (Livin’ Dred Theatre); Stones in his Pockets (McCarter Theatre); The Second Violinist (Landmark Productions); King Lear, Translations, 16 Possible Glimpses, Arrah na Pogue, Christ Deliver Us, Romeo & Juliet, Drama at Inish, The Shaughraun, She Stoops to Conquer, The Burial at Thebes, I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Fell, The Wolf of Winter, Finders Keepers (Abbey Theatre); The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court). 

Film credits include: The Banshees of Inisherin, The Foreigner, Assassin’s Creed, Kathleen, Croí, Simon, The Cellar, L.O.L.A., Redemption of a Rogue, Ghost Light, Float Like a Butterfly, Maze, Sacrifice, Hide and Seek, The Christmas Break, Pan, 71, Patrick’s Day, Hideaways, The Other Side of Sleep, Foxes, Deep Breaths, Speed Dating, The Invitation, LSD:73, Ella Enchanted. 

Television credits include: The Vanishing Triangle, The Gone, The Christmas Break, Hidden Assets, Striking Out, Clean Break, Inspector Jury, Vikings, Jack Taylor, Single-Handed, Love/Hate, The Tudors, The Last Furlong. 

Awards include: Obie Award for Outstanding Performance, Lucille Lortel Best Actor Award, Manchester Evening News Best Actor Award (The Cripple of Inishmaan); Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards Best Supporting Actor (Conversations on a Homecoming in DruidMurphy); Garden State Film Festival Best Actor Award; Richard Harris Film Festival Best Actor Award; European Film Festival Best Actor Award.

Druid: Marie co-founded Druid in 1975 and is a member of the Druid Ensemble. She has appeared in numerous productions including The House, Endgame, The Seagull, DruidGregory, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Sive, Brigit, Bailegangaire, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, DruidSynge, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and The Playboy of the Western World. 

Other theatre credits include: The Dead (ANU/ Landmark Productions/MoLI); Audrey or Sorrow (Landmark Productions/Abbey Theatre); The Music Man (Broadway); The Saviour (Landmark Productions); Testament (Landmark Productions/ Dublin Theatre Festival); The Man Who Came to Dinner, King Lear, The Man of Mode (RSC); The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant, The Power of Darkness, On Raftery’s Hill, Big Maggie (Abbey Theatre). 

Screen credits include: Dancing at Lughnasa, Circle of Friends. 

Awards include: Tony Awards, Best Actress; Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress; Obie Awards, Best Actress.

Rory is a member of the Druid Ensemble. 

Druid: Endgame, DruidO’Casey: Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, Three Short Comedies by Sean O’Casey (2021), Sorry, Wrong Number, DruidGregory, The Cherry Orchard, Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Shelter, Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy. 

Other theatre credits include: Piaf, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bedroom Farce, A Christmas Carol, Death of a Salesman (Gate Theatre); The Tempest, Northern Star, The Critic, Peer Gynt, The Importance of Being Earnest, Don Carlos, The Taming of the Shrew, Improbable Frequency, Is This About Sex? (Rough Magic); An Octoroon, She Stoops to Conquer, Aristocrats, The Government Inspector, Translations, Arrah na Pogue, Macbeth, The Rivals, Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant, The Comedy of Errors, Heavenly Bodies, Big Love (Abbey Theatre); The Alternative (Fishamble); Chekhov’s First Play (Dead Centre); Postcards from the Ledge, Breaking Dad, Between Foxrock and a Hard Place, The Last Days of the Celtic Tiger, Sleeping Beauty (Landmark Productions); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Livin’ Dred/Nomad); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Corn Exchange); The Evils of Tobacco (Mangiare Theatre). 

Screen credits include: Showkids, Harry Wild, Whitetail, Once Upon A Royal Summer, The Ick, Silver and the Book of Dreams, Sisters, Conversations with Friends, Foundation, Deadly Cuts, X Marks the Spot, Acceptable Risk, The Delinquent Season, WILD, Charlie, Fair City, A Thousand Times Goodnight, The Baker Street Irregulars, Trouble in Paradise, Nothing Personal. 

Awards include: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Best Supporting Actor (An Octoroon), Best Supporting Actor (Waiting for Godot).

Garry Hynes co-founded Druid in 1975 and has worked as its artistic director from 1975 to 1991 and from 1995 to date. From 1991 to 1994 she was artistic director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. 

Garry has also worked with the Gate Theatre (Ireland); the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court (UK); Center Theatre Group, Second Stage, Signature Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, the Kennedy Center, the Mark Taper Forum, and the Spoleto Festival (USA). 

Awards include: a Tony Award for Direction for The Beauty Queen of Leenane; the Joe A. Callaway Award (New York) for Outstanding Directing for The Cripple of Inishmaan; UK Theatre Awards for Best Director for DruidMurphy and DruidO’Casey; Irish Times/ ESB Irish Theatre Awards for Best Director for DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, and a Special Tribute Award in 2005 for her contribution to Irish theatre. Garry received the Freedom of the City of Galway in 2006 and the President’s Award from Galway Chamber for her contribution to the business life of Galway in 2022. She was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2022. She has received honorary doctorates from University College Dublin, University of Dublin, the National University of Ireland, and the National Council for Education Awards. She is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, and a member of the Honorary Council of the Royal Hibernian Academy (HRHA). In 2011, Garry was appointed adjunct professor of drama and theatre studies at University of Galway.

Francis is a regular collaborator with Garry Hynes and Druid. His designs for plays, musicals, and opera have been seen in Ireland, the UK, throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, and his work with the Gate Theatre (Ireland) has frequently been seen at Spoleto Festival. 

Druid: The House, Endgame, DruidO’Casey: Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, The Last Return, Three Short Comedies by Sean O’Casey (2021), The Seagull, Boland: Journey of a Poet, DruidGregory, The Cherry Orchard, The Beacon, Epiphany, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Shelter, Furniture, Sive, King of the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, Big Maggie, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, Brigit, Bailegangaire, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Gigli Concert, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Leaves, Empress of India, The Year of the Hiker, DruidSynge, The Well of the Saints, The Tinker’s Wedding, Sharon’s Grave, Sive, The Good Father, My Brilliant Divorce, The Lonesome West, A Skull in Connemara, The Leenane Trilogy, The Country Boy, The Way You Look Tonight, Shadow and Substance, Wild Harvest. 

Awards include: Five Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, three for Best Design, two for Best Costume Design (with Doreen McKenna); Boston Critics Circle; Dora Mavor Moore Award; and a nomination for the Faust Prize, Germany. Francis was also honored to have his work in Irish theatre represented in Fragments (Prague Quadrennial 2019).

James trained at the Yale School of Drama and the University of Connecticut. He is on the board of CoisCéim Dance Theatre. He often collaborates with the Wooden Floor dancers, Santa Ana, California. 

Druid: The House, Endgame, DruidO’Casey: Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, Three Short Comedies by Sean O’Casey (2021), The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, The Beacon, DruidShakespeare: Richard Ill, Sive, King of the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare: Richard Il, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V. 

Designs for other theatre include: A Year with Frog and Toad (Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis); Once Before I Go (Gate Theatre, Dublin). 

Designs for concert include: Music to Accompany a Departure (LA Master Chorale). 

Designs for opera include: Castor et Pollux (National Opera of Paris); The Gambler (Salzburger Festspiele); Ruinous Gods (Spoleto Festival USA); five world premieres by John Adams including Nixon in China; four world premieres by Kaija Saariaho including L’Amour de Loin, all directed by Peter Sellars; Il Farnace and Kat’a Kabanova, both directed by Garry Hynes at Spoleto Festival USA. 

Designs for dance include: Mayday (BODYTRAFFIC, Los Angeles); The Fairy’s Kiss (Dutch National Ballet, Miami City Ballet); Anima Animus (La Scala, San Francisco Ballet); Bespoke (Houston Ballet); Twyla Joyce! (Joyce Theater, New York); Three Tchaikovsky Overtures (Baverische Staatsoper Ballett, Munich); Paul Taylor Dance Company; Mark Morris Dance Group including Mozart Dances, The Hard Nut, and L‘Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.

Druid: Endgame, DruidO’Casey: Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, Three Short Comedies by Sean O’Casey (2021), The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, The Beacon, DruidShakespeare: Richard III, Shelter, Furniture, Sive, King of the Castle, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV (Pts 1&2), Henry V, Brigit, Bailegangaire, Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom, The Hackney Office. 

Other theatre credits include: The Twits, The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court); Misterman (Galway International Arts Festival/Landmark Productions); Medea, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Twelfth Night, No Man’s Land, Tristan & Yseult, The Emperor Jones, Earthquakes in London (National Theatre, London); The Merchant of Venice, Cloud Nine (Almeida); All’s Well That Ends Well, The Heart of Robin Hood, Great Expectations, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tantalus, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company). 

London West End credits include: My Night with Reg, Goodnight Mr. Tom, The Vortex, A Voyage Around My Father, And Then There Were None, Some Girls, Waiting for Godot, What The Butler Saw, Journey’s End, Equus. 

Awards include: Tony Award for Best Sound Design (Equus), Drama Desk Award (Journey’s End).

Grainne studied fine art and painting after leaving school but was always passionate about the art of makeup. When the opportunity arose, she returned to study and completed a diploma in film and media makeup. Thus began her career in television, film, and theatre. 

Druid: Endgame, DruidO’Casey: Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, The Last Return, The Cavalcaders, Three Short Comedies by Sean O’Casey (2021), The Seagull, Boland: Journey of a Poet, Once Upon a Bridge. 

Other theatre credits include: By the Bog of Cats (Newbridge Drama Group), Toy Show: The Musical (RTÉ), Con Mór, St Patrick’s Day Parade (Macnas). 

Screen credits include: The Three Chairs, Seisiún, Young Filmmaker of the Year, Mary Coughlan at the Town Hall Theatre, Keys to Your Life, Vanilla (RTÉ); Ros na Rún, Creative Hearts, The Mighty Ocean (TG4); Souvenirs (The Prine Family/The Mick Lally Theatre/RTÉ Radio One/ South Wind Blows); I Am Patrick (Netflix).

Clíodhna is a graduate of the BA in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and English at University of Galway. Clíodhna was the 2019–2020 recipient of Druid’s Marie Mullen Bursary, an annual award for women working on the island of Ireland as theatre artists in the fields of design, directing, and dramaturgy. 

Druid: Costume designer and costume supervisor for The Cavalcaders, Boland: Journey of a Poet, Once Upon a Bridge, On the Outside (as part of DruidGregory); co-costume designer and costume supervisor for The House, DruidO’Casey; associate costume designer and costume supervisor for Endgame, The Last Return, Three Short Comedies by Sean O’Casey (2021), The Seagull; costume supervisor for DruidGregory; assistant costume designer and dresser for The Cherry Orchard; dresser for DruidShakespeare: Richard III at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. 

Other theatre credits include: Costume designer for Somnium (Brú Theatre), Ar Ais Arís (Brú Theatre/Galway 2020 and GIAF 2021), An Dara Réalt, Yummy Mummy (An Taibhdhearc), Aisling? (Ealaín na Gaeltachta), BAOITE (An Taibhdhearc/Abbey Theatre); costume assistant and dresser for Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Landmark Productions), The Country Girls (Abbey Theatre). 

Screen credits include: Costume designer for Calf, Far Calls, Living with a Fairy 2; costume assistant for Mr. Mender and the Chummyjiggers; costume trainee for Wild Mountain Thyme.