Rachel Anderson-Rabern

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Director, scholar, and theatre professor.

Rachel is Associate Professor of Theatre at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA) where she co-directs the Theatre program.

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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