Director

Whitney
White

(she/her)

Tony Award nominee, Obie Award and Lily Award–winning director, writer, and performer. Broadway: Liberation, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The Last Five Years. Other: All Is But Fantasy (Royal Shakespeare Company), Walden (Second Stage Theater), Jordans (The Public Theater), Saturday Church (New York Theatre Workshop), The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida Theatre, UK), The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Soft (MCC Theater), On Sugarland (New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations, Outstanding Direction), Semblance (New York Theatre Workshop), The Amen Corner (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater, Second Stage Theater), What to Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theare Company, A.R.T., The Public Theater). Staff writer: I’m a Virgo (Amazon Studios). Writer/performer of Macbeth In Stride (A.R.T., Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Musical Performance by an Actress). Recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Susan Stroman Directing Award. Part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. M.F.A. Acting Brown University/Trinity Rep; B.A. Northwestern University.