Philip Valle
Theatre Lecturer
Contact
- Office: Bldg. 45, Rm. 203
- Phone: 805-756-2486
- Email: pvalle@calpoly.edu
About Philip Valle
Mr. Valle’s earliest play, The Stall. was first produced by the Dept. of Theatre while he was an undergrad at U.C. Berkeley. He received his MFA from Arizona State University and currently teaches courses in Theatre History. In 2020, he received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Honors College, where he developed a course in Creativity. His original works, performed in the United States, Canada and Mexico, are inspired by the history of social justice, from the civil rights movement to the anarchic rise of rock and roll. Recent productions of his plays pool ’63, Refried Elvis and the immersive play Ghost Ship received numerous national awards, including Outstanding Production of a Devised Work and Outstanding Theatrical Creation from The Kennedy Center. In 2019, Mr. Valle presented his research in the "Cognitive Science of Creativity" at Queen’s University – Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2022, Mr. Valle joined collaborators in Mumbai India for an ongoing devised theatrical/film project addressing global Climate Justice and the fashion industry entitled The Bombay Runway.
Mr. Valle is the co-founder of The Staging Change Project, an outreach program that addresses Climate Science by providing transformative performing arts curriculum to thousands of students across San Luis Obispo county.