INFORMED CONSENT Begins Tonight at Horizon Theatre

With today's science moving at breakneck speed, how much knowledge is too much? Deborah Zoe Laufer's new play Informed Consent, an Off-Broadway comedy drama at Horizon Theatre, is an electrifying journey of science, religion and ethics that follows one woman's journey to uncover ancient truths and save her 4-year-old daughter. Inspired by a true story, this fast-paced tale of science, secrets and lies unfolds on the Horizon Theatre stage tonight, October 9, through November 8. With science and belief pitted against one another, the question, "Is my DNA really my history and my destiny?" is asked.

"Smart, provocative and funny, Laufer weaves family, science and belief into a riveting contemporary story. She is a master of exploring the exciting and scary choices that we all face today as science advances - often before we can fully absorb its consequences," says Horizon Co-Artistic Director Lisa Adler. "Her play End Days (produced at Horizon in 2009) was an immediate audience favorite, so we leapt at the chance to bring her newest play straight from Off-Broadway to Horizon this fall."

Under Adler's direction, Informed Consent follows the eager geneticist Jillian and her quest to uncover what is causing a diabetes epidemic among a Native American tribe in the Grand Canyon. As her ground-breaking research comes to fruition, Jillian exposes long hidden truths of the tribe's origin, as well as life-threatening monsters lingering in her own DNA. With time against her, she races to solve scientific mysteries affecting the future of her own family.

"It asks who we are," playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer says about Informed Consent. "Are we our genetic history? Are we our stories? Are we our memories?" Deborah Zoe Laufer is an award-winning playwright whose selected plays include End Days, Leveling Up, Out of Sterno, Sirens and The Last Schwartz. End Days won the prestigious Steinberg Award for Best New American Play from the American Theatre Critics Association in 2007, has been produced more than 50 times worldwide and was recognized as one of the best regional plays in 2008.

Currently a New York Times Critic's Pick, Informed Consent is running Off-Broadway at Primary Stages in New York City through September 2015. Lauded as, "a thoughtful and engrossing play" by the New York Times, it was commissioned by the EST/Sloan Project (which commissions plays about how we view and are affected by the scientific world) and premiered in 2014 in a co-production between GEVA Theatre (upstate New York) and the Cleveland Playhouse.

Informed Consent at Horizon will feature an all-star Atlanta cast, including Bethany Anne Lind as the central role of scientist Jillian, Neal Ghant as her husband Graham, Diany Rodriguez as Native American leader Arella, Carey Curtis Smith as professor Ken and Tonia Jackson as several important women in Jillian's life. The creative team includes resident designers Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay (set) and Mary Parker (lights) and returning designers Syndey Roberts (costumes), Kate Bidwell LaFoy (props) and Thom Jenkins (sound). The theatre will host special guest respondents related to genetics, science and ethics following many of the performances.

Informed Consent will run October 9- November 8, 2015 at Horizon Theatre in Little Five Points (Euclid and Austin Avenues, 1083 Austin Avenue NE). Performances are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m. Single ticket seating is general admission, and there is a reserved seating section for subscribers. Tickets can be purchased starting at $25 (Wednesday and Thursday) or $30 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). Ticket prices are subject to change based on availability; order early to get the best prices. Eight percent sales tax will be added to all ticket orders. Group discounts are available for parties of 10 or more - call for more information. Internet convenience fee added to all online orders. No refunds, exchanges, or late seating. Order online at tickets.horizontheatre.com or by calling the Box Office at 404-584-7450.

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