Tina Benko Replaces Annie Parisse in Primary Stages' INFORMED CONSENT

BroadwayWorld has confirmed that Tina Benko (Broadway's Irena's Vow, Top Girls, The Real Thing) will join 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.

Benko assumes the role of Jillian, after previously announced Annie Parisse had to withdraw from the production due to a scheduling conflict.

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 by Matthew 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.