| Dear Patrons and Alumni, Finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for… |
The Hasty Pudding Theatricals is thrilled to announce ANNETTE BENING as our 74th annual Woman of the Year! |
| Hot off of her Oscar nomination for Best Actress, Annette Bening will be joining us for our Woman of the Year roast, press conference, and full-length viewing of HPT 175: Heist, Heist, Baby. You should too! This will be no average Tuesday — our cocktail attire event will take place at 7:00 pm on February 6th, 2024 in our Farkas Hall theater at 12 Holyoke Street. |
| 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, 20TH 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. |