Reagan Chesnut
Assistant Director: Service and ProcessAs Assistant Director: Service and Process in the Computing and Information Technology (CIT) office, Reagan equips users with skills and knowledge to self-sustain technology use, designs training and resources for community confidence and competence, and is a member of several institution-wide project teams.
She also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Theatre, where she co-teaches Stage Production I and supervises the department’s student stage managers.
Reagan graduated from Hope in 2008 as a theatre major. Graduate school took her to Dublin, Ireland, where she also worked with Fishamble: the New Play Company as head script reader and held positions as stage manager and dramaturg with Tavistock Arts. In 2012 she returned to TV as office manager of the theatre department and associate managing director of Hope Summer Repertory Theatre. She was particularly fond of her grant-writing duties.
Since 2021 she has been on the staff of both the Department of Theatre and CIT.
EDUCATION
- M.Phil, theatre and performance (playwriting emphasis), University of Dublin: Trinity
College, 2010
Dissertation: “Turning Violence into Play: Violence as Comedy in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Beauty Queen of Leenane”&Բ; - B.A., theatre, TV, 2008
- Audio Description Institute, American Council of the Blind/Audio Description Project
Outside the College
When she's not at work, Reagan is an avid writer, baker and silversmith. She also serves on the board of HASP (the Hope Academy of Senior Professionals).