Photo Coverage: Meet the Company of Primary Stages' INFORMED CONSENT

Tina Benko (Broadway's Irena's Vow, Top Girls, The Real Thing) joins Pun Bandhu (Wit, The Judge), Jesse J. Perez (Recent Tragic Events, American Splendor), DeLanna Studi (August: Osage County, Edge of America), and Myra Lucretia Taylor (Nine, "Girls") in Primary Stages and Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Project's upcoming production, Informed Consent. The New York City premiere by Deborah Zoe Laufer (End Days, Leveling Up) and directed by Obie winner Liesl Tommy(Appropriate, The Good Negro) will play a limited engagement August 4 - September 13, 2015 at Primary Stages at The Duke on 42nd Street - a New 42nd Street project. Opening night is Tuesday, August 18 at 7PM.

An electrifying new play by one of the most exciting voices in American theater, Informed Consent is an "urgent, challenging, and of-the-moment" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) drama about one woman's quest to answer the mysteries of science and her own life, inspired by a landmark court case between one of the country's largest universities and a Native American tribe based in the Grand Canyon.

Informed Consent features scenic design by Wilson Chin, costume design by Jacob A. Climer, lighting design byMatthew Richards, original music and sound design by Broken Chord, projection design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, and casting by Stephanie Klapper Casting.

"In the past year alone, Deborah Zoe Laufer has had over 20 productions of her plays performed throughout the country," says Primary Stages Artistic Director Andrew Leynse. "We are thrilled to present Informed Consent in its Off-Broadway Premiere in a co-production with Ensemble Studio Theatre, who commissioned and developed the playas a part of their Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project.

Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski

Casey Childs, Paul Slee, Michelle Bossy, William Carden, Andrew Leynse

Paul Slee, Casey Childs, Liesl Tommy, Michelle Bossy, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Andrew Leynse, William Carden

Myra Lucretia Taylor, Pun Bandhu, Liesl Tommy, Tina Benko, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Jesse J. Perez, DeLanna Studi

Myra Lucretia Taylor, Pun Bandhu, DeLanna Studi, Tina Benko, Jesse J. Perez

Deborah Zoe Laufer

Liesl Tommy

Tina Benko

DeLanna Studi

Pun Bandhu

Myra Lucretia Taylor

Jesse J. Perez