Director

Whitney
White

(she/her)

Whitney is a two-time Tony Award nominee and an Obie and Lilly Award–winning writer and performer. Her Broadway credits include School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Liberation, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, and The Last Five Years. Her Off-Broadway credits include Macbeth in Stride (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Walden (Second Stage Theater), Jordans (The Public Theater), Saturday Church (New York Theatre Workshop), Soft (MCC Theater), On Sugarland (New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations), Semblance (New York Theatre Workshop), 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, American Repertory Theater, The Public Theater), and for all the women who thought they were Mad (Soho Rep). International credits include All Is But Fantasy (Royal Shakespeare Company) and The Secret Life of Bees (Almeida Theatre). Her TV credits include I’m a Virgo (staff writer, Amazon Studios). She has received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Susan Stroman Directing Award, and was included in Variety’s 10 Broadway Stars to Watch. She is a part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. She received her M.F.A. in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep and her B.A. from Northwestern University.