Phyllis Wong
Theatre Lecturer
Contact Information
- Office: Bldg. 45, Rm. 203
- Phone: 805-756-0682
- Email: pwong28@calpoly.edu
About Phyllis Wong
Dr. Phyllis Wong is a mother, a friend, a teacher, a community builder, a storyteller and a lifelong learner. She teaches TH210 - Intro to Theatre, TH227 - Theatre History I, TH228 - Theatre History II and TH380 Theatre for Young Audiences at Cal Poly. She holds a PhD in Theatre for Youth from ASU as well as a BA from UCLA in English-World Literature. Her main areas of interest and research are in storytelling, connection and promoting civic dialogue through theatre. The stories she is most interested in exploring are the stories from the margins. She has previously taught Theatre for Social Change, Methods in Teaching Drama in the Classroom, Improvisation, Topics in Theatre for Youth, and Global Theatre and Performance.
Dr. Wong has received multiple grants and scholarships, including the prestigious Ernst and Irmgard Moller Dissertation Scholarship and Cal Poly’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program Grants for The Staging Change Project.
She has presented her work at prominent conferences like the International Drama and Education Association and the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. She most recently wrote, directed and toured a show surrounding the topic of fast fashion and climate change.
She is the mother of two wonderful children who take center stage in her heart. When she is not on campus, you can find her hiking, reading a good book, making up silly songs with her kids or having a deep conversation with a friend.