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David Lee White
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David is a playwright, performer and educator.

David Lee White is a playwright/performer/educator who has worked with multiple theatres in the NJ/NY/PA area. For fourteen years, David Lee White was the Associate Artistic Director at Passage Theatre. In 2016, David was commissioned by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center to create the play FIXED, based on interviews with people navigating bi-polar disorder. His play BLOOD: A COMEDY was seen at Passage Theatre (2009) and Vivid Stage (2012) and was the basis for the upcoming film A RELATIVE COMEDY, directed by Laura Ekstrand. Other plays include SLIPPERY AS SIN, WAYS TO BE HAPPY and TIME FREAKS. His solo show PANTHER HOLLOW has been performed at various venues throughout the country. David has created seven shows with composer/writer Kate Brennan – ALiEN8, CLEAN SLATE, ILLUMINATE, ANATOMY OF A FLOOD, BOOK OF WONDER (a novel and a musical), THE LIBRARY AT THE END OF THE WORLD and THE BLEEDING HEART ACADEMY FOR GIRLS PRESENTS.  Together, they were finalists for the Jonathan Larson grant, and recipients of a MAP Fund Award. He was also given the Visionary Award by NAMI Mercer. His plays are published by Next Stage Press, YouthPLAYS, Bloomsbury Methuen, Smith & Kraus and Witherspoon Press. 

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Essay

This Piece May Not Be Fed Into Any LLM or Other AI Software for Any Reason Whatsoever

1 April 2026

Technological innovation is outpacing labor protections, and theatre is not immune to this phenomenon. Kate Brennan, Rachel Anderson-Rabern, and David Lee White discuss what’s at stake when we decenter humans—especially playwrights—to embrace large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI).

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