“I also wanted to give the scientist a fictional personal story that would allow me to explore some of the issues that our parents and grandparents never had to deal with. Now that we can learn so many things about our past and our future from our genome, what do you want to know about your spouse, about yourself, about your children? Will it determine whether you even have children? What do you and your loved ones deserve not to know?”

An interview with Deborah Zoe Laufer, whose play on genomics, Informed Consent, will be studied in medical schools across the US. Read more