Chesley Cannon is a resident designer at Honolulu Theatre for Youth. He has an MFA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and has studied stop-motion animation at the Aardman Academy in Bristol, UK, and traditional marionette building in Prague, Czechia.
EDUCATION
Puppets in Prague, Prague
Aardman Academy, Bristol
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Advanced Automata
Unclass.Grad (Theatre Fieldwork)
Doctoral Studies: Western Theatre
MFA Theatre (Set Design)
Unclass. Grad (English)
Theatre Major
2/21 – 7/21 (online)
10/16 (in person)
11/23 – 2624 (in person)
1/22 – 4/22 (online)
5/21 – 8/21 (online)
1/22 – 5/22
8/19 – 5/20
8/08 – 5/11
1/08 – 5/08
1/02 – 5/06
8 month course
8 month course
2 week workshop
4 month course
4 month course
2 week workshop
Full time six month course
3 month course
3 month course
(no degree pursued)
(no degree pursued)
MFA
(no degree pursued)
BA
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Honolulu Theatre for Youth
East-West Center Gallery
East-West Center Gallery
2012 – present
Spr 2025
Fall 2021
Spr 2012
Spr 2010
Fall 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Spr 2025
Fall 2021
Spr 2012
Spr 2010
Fall 2008