Garry founded Druid in 1975 and 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.

Druid
Productions include: Leaves (Galway and Royal Court Theatre, London), Playboy of the Western World (Tokyo International Arts Festival), Empress of India (Galway and Dublin Theatre Festival), The Year of the Hiker (Galway, Dublin and National Tour), DruidSynge (Galway Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival and Inis Meain 2005), Sharon’s Grave, Sive, On Raftery’s Hill (Royal Court Co-Production), The Leenane Trilogy, Lovers Meeting, Conversations on a Homecoming, Bailegangaire, The Shaughran, Wood of the Whispering.

Abbey Theatre
Productions include: King of the Castle, The Plough and the Stars, The Power of Darkness, Famine, A Whistle in the Dark, Portia Coughlan.

Other Theatre
Productions include: Translations (Biltmore Theatre, New York), The Man of Mode, Song of the Nightingale (Royal Shakespeare Company); Mr Peter’s Connections (Signature Theatre, New York); Crimes of the Heart (Second Theatre, New York); My Brilliant Divorce (West End); Crestfall (Gate Theatre, Dublin); 16 Wounded (Broadway); A Streetcar Named Desire (Kennedy Center, Washington).

Awards
Garry has received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Dublin (2004), The National University of Ireland (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/ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Director (2002) and a Special Tribute Award for her contribution to Irish Theatre in February 2005.

Druid will present Long Day's Journey into Night at the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.