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. 

Hasty Pudding 2024: Man of the Year

“With experience as both superhero and supervillain, Barry Keoghan is the perfect choice to fight to earn his Pudding pot.”

THE HASTY PUDDING THEATRICALS ANNOUNCES

BARRY KEOGHAN

AS 2024 MAN OF THE YEAR

CAMBRIDGE, MA (January 26, 2024) –

Barry Keoghan is an Academy Award®, Golden Globe®,

SAG Award nominated performer as well as a BAFTA Award

winning film and television actor, working with the industry’s

leading auteurs.

Currently, Keoghan can be seen co-starring in the AppleTV+

series, Master of The Air, executive produced by Steven

Spielberg and Tom Hanks. From the creators of Band of

Brothers, the series follows American airmen in the 100th

Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss and

triumph. Keoghan portrays pilot ‘Lt. Curtis Biddick,’

alongside Austin Butler and Callum Tuner. He can also be

seen starring in Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, co-starring Jacob

Elordi, Rosamund Pike and Richard E. Grant, for Amazon

Prime. The film follows Oxford University student Oliver

Quick (Keoghan), who is struggling to find his place, and finds himself drawn into the world of

the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric

family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten. For his role, Keoghan received a

2024 Golden Globe® Award nomination and is nominated for a BAFTA Award in the category

of Best Leading Actor.

Most recently, Keoghan completed production on Andrea Arnold‘s Bird, starring opposite of

Franz Rogowski; as well as Trey Edward Schults’ and The Weeknd’s untitled project starring

opposite of Jenna Ortega as well. Prior to this, he completed production on Chris Andrews’

Bring Them Down opposite of Christopher Abbott and Colm Meaney.

Most notably, in 2023, Keoghan received the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor as

Dominic in Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, opposite Colin Farrell and Brendan

Gleeson. The same year he was also nominated for the 2023 Academy Award® in the category

of Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role; Golden Globe® for Best Supporting

Actor in a Motion Picture; Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor as well as

Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture; Critics’ Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best

Acting Ensemble; Irish Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor; as well as The

London Film Critic’s Circle Award for Supporting Actor of the Year among many other

accolades.

Additional film credits include Matt Reeves’ DC Universe The Batman, opposite Robert

Pattinson; Chloe Zhao’s Marvels’ Eternals, with a cast that includes Angelina Jolie, Salma

Hayek, Brian Tyree Henry & Kumail Nanjiani; David Lowery’s The Green Knight; Nick

Rowland’s Calm with Horses (BAFTA, BIFA and IFTA nominations); as well as Bart Layton’s

American Animals (BIFA nomination); Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer opposite

Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman (Independent Spirit Award nominations and Irish Film &

Television Award win); Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Dunkirk, with Mark Rylance, Tom

Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Cillian Murphy; Lance Daly’s Black ’47; Konstantin Bojanov’s

Light Thereafter; Rebecca Daly’s Mammal; Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us; Rachael

Moriarty and Peter Murphy’s Traders; as well as Yann Demanges’ ’71.

Additional television credits include Craig Mazin’s Emmy® and Golden Globe® Nominated

Chernobyl and the third and final season of Top Boy.

TO PURCHASE TICKETS to the 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 4th to March 3rd.

HPT 175: This year we are celebrating the Hasty Pudding’s 175th anniversary. We are the oldest

theatrical organization in the United States, and the third oldest organization in the world. The

Hasty Pudding Theatricals have presented their unique brand of student-written theater every

year since 1844, the only exceptions being for World Wars I and II and the COVID-19 pandemic.