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
Institution
Puppets in Prague, Prague
Aardman Academy, Bristol
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Course
Advanced Automata
- Automata Fundamentals
- Marionette Carving
- Animal Marionette
- Dragon Marionette
- Puppets for Film Animation
- In Studio Stop Motion
- Stop Motion 2
- Stop Motion 1
Unclass.Grad (Theatre Fieldwork)
Doctoral Studies: Western Theatre
MFA Theatre (Set Design)
Unclass. Grad (English)
Theatre Major
Attended
- 9/25 – 5/26 (online)
- 9/24 – 5/25 (online)
- 6/23 – 7/23 (in person)
- 1/23 – 6/23 (online)
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
Type/Degree
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
Institution
Honolulu Theatre for Youth
East-West Center Gallery
East-West Center Gallery
Position
- Filmmaker/Resident Designer
- exhibit co-curator
- Exhibit Installation Assistant
2012 – present
- 2025
- 2019 – present
Semester
Spr 2025
Fall 2021
Spr 2012
Spr 2010
Fall 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Institution
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
Position
- Faculty Lecturer
- Faculty Lecturer
- Faculty Lecturer
- Teaching Assistant
- Teaching Assistant
Course
- THEA 690
- ACM 216
- THEA 240
- THEA 453
- THEA 353
Semester
Spr 2025
Fall 2021
Spr 2012
Spr 2010
Fall 2008