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Hi – my name is Charissa and I’m excited to be here with the Pi Team for the summer! As a summer internship student, I’m working on development here at Pi, an area that I am eager to learn more about. I’m originally from Surrey, but in the fall, I’ll headed back to Oregon to complete my Masters in Arts Management with a focus in Performing Arts Management and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management at the University of Oregon. So far it has been great to be back in Vancouver for the summer (despite the rain) and I’m looking forward to what the rest of the summer holds!

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Research is a key component to creating a believable world on stage. Our Production Dramaturge for Ayad Akhtar's The Invisible Hand,  the multi-talented Adele Noronha, wrote this blog summarizing the research she did during the rehearsal process...

My job as production dramaturge on The Invisible Hand was to contextualize the world of the play. It involved research. A lot of research. And a lot of discussion. I always felt like I never knew enough. Sometimes I would get lost in what I call “rabbit holes of research,” where curiosity led me too far into details that it stopped being relative to...