Adjunct Professor
Greg Hatch is a faculty librarian at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library, where he is the Head of Creativity & Innovation. His department offers collaborative support and expertise to scholars in their transdisciplinary research and teaching, with an emphasis on arts and design, media production, 3D and prototyping technologies, multimodal communication, and experiential learning. (ProtoSpace, the Dumke Fine Arts & Architecture Library, and the Media Studios.) Greg’s research and creative interests meet at the intersection of information science and the arts, exploring visual literacy and communication, data visualization, and interdisciplinary applications of emerging technologies.
Greg is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Theatre. He supports the Department’s teaching and learning mission by curating and purchasing books, scores, audiovisual materials, and other scholarly resource for the Marriott Library’s collections. He teaches information literacy, research, and technology skills, and consults on dramaturgical projects.
Greg worked as a stage manager, production manager, and company manager in the Twin Cities, at the Oregon Shakespeare, and in the Seattle area before becoming a librarian. He now moonlights as a dramaturg in Salt Lake City. He has worked on productions at Pioneer Theatre Company and Plan-B Theatre Company, and has collaborated on new play development through The Lab at Plan-B Theatre, and with playwrights Debora Threedy and Matthew Ivan Bennett.
Greg earned an MLIS at the University of Washington and a BA in Theatre at Saint John’s University, MN.