…and some you might not.

• Druid passionately believes that audiences have a right to see first class professional theatre without having to travel long distances outside their own communities. Since 1978 the company has toured to every nook and cranny in Ireland and since 1982 has toured extensively overseas.

• The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh won five prestigious New York theatre awards in 2009 after it transferred to the Atlantic Theater in New York from Galway. It was also the best-selling production up to that time at the award-winning theatre.

• In the past fifteen years, Druid has premiered 23 new plays, 14 of which were the professional debut for the writer, demonstrating the company’s commitment to new writing.

• The production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, which played in a parish hall in Bangor-Erris (rural Ireland) was the same production that played at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway and won Druid four Tony awards including Best Director for Garry Hynes, the first woman to win the award.

• Upon its release in 2007, the DVD box set of DruidSynge (Druid’s staging of all six of Synge’s plays on the same day), filmed by RTÉ and Wildfire, was presented to every school in Ireland by the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and is now available for purchase.

• In 2008, for the second year in a row, Druid and Enda Walsh won the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe First Award for The New Electric Ballroom following their win in 2007 for The Walworth Farce.

• Druid’s name was inspired by the characters in a comic strip Asterix the Gaul which was featured in the paper in 1975. At the time the company required a name to apply for a bank loan for their fledgling theatre company – the plan was to change it eventually but the name stuck.