We Are All Burning @HFF ’26

BEFORE THERE WAS AI, THERE WERE THE LUDDITES. HISTORY'S FIRST TECH BACKLASH COMES TO HOLLYWOOD FRINGE LOS ANGELES, CA — In 1812, thousands of English workers took up hammers and marched into the night to destroy the machines they believed were stealing their futures. More than two hundred years later, as artificial intelligence reshapes industries around the world, their story feels eerily familiar. We Are All Burning, a new play by Los Angeles native Travers Tobis, comes to the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June with a timely question: What happens when progress leaves people behind?