Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Hasty Pudding: Woman of the Year 2024


The Red Balloon's favorite line from The Hasty Pudding's announcement of Annette Bening as Woman of the Year: “That said, I can promise earning her Pudding Pot won’t be as difficult as swimming from Cuba to Florida.”


 THE HASTY PUDDING THEATRICALS ANNOUNCES

ANNETTE BENING

AS 2024 WOMAN OF THE YEAR

 


Annette Bening is a Tony Award and five-time Academy Award nominee, and two-time

Golden Globe, and Screen 

Actors Guild Award winner. Most recently, she starred in 

NYAD, directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy 

Chin, and JERRY AND MARGE GO LARGE on 

Paramount+, opposite Bryan Cranston. 

Upcoming, she will be seen in POOLMAN, alongside Danny 

DeVito and directed by/co-starring Chris Pine. 

Additional film credits include DEATH ON THE NILE, 

HOPE GAP, THE REPORT, GEORGETOWN, LIFE ITSELF, 

THE SEAGULL, CAPTAIN MARVEL, FILM STARS 

DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL, 20 TH CENTURY WOMEN, 

RULES DON’T APPLY, DANNY COLLINS, THE 

SEARCH, THE FACE OF LOVE, RUBY SPARKS, GIRL 

MOST LIKELY, GINGER & ROSA, THE KIDS ARE 

ALRIGHT, MOTHER AND CHILD, BEING JULIA, 

AMERICAN BEAUTY, IN DREAMS, THE SIEGE, THE 

AMERICAN PRESIDENT, MARS ATTACKS!, RICHARD III, LOVE AFFAIR,

BUGSY, REGARDING HENRY, THE GRIFTERS, GUILTY BY SUSPICION,

VALMONT, POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, and THE GREAT OUTDOORS. 

On stage, Bening was last seen in Jack O’Brian’s Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s classic

ALL MY SONS alongside Tracy Letts, for which she earned a Tony Award nomination.

Previous stage credits include: Public Theater’s 2014 Shakespeare in the Park production

of KING LEAR; RUTH DRAPER MONOLOGUES at Geffen Playhouse; Anton Chekhov’s

THE CHERRY ORCHARD at Mark Taper Forum; Alan Bennett’s TALKING HEADS at

Tiffany Theater; Henrik Ibsen’s HEDDA GABLER at Geffen Playhouse; and MEDEA at

UCLA. 

Bening also received a Tony Award nomination and won the Clarence Derwent Award for

Outstanding Debut Performance of the Season for her role in COASTAL DISTURBANCES. 

Bening graduated from San Francisco State University and trained at the

American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco until she joined the acting company.

Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 175th production, Heist Heist Baby, visit

https://www.hastypudding.org/buy-tickets/, email tickets@hastypudding.org, or

contact the HPT Box Office at (617)-495-5205. The show will be performed at

Harvard University’s historic Farkas Hall at 12 Holyoke Street from February 2ndto March 3rd.

The company then travels to NYC for a performance on March 9th. They will then travel

to Hamilton City Hall in Bermuda for performances from March 13thto 15th

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