Artist

Whitney White

Director

PlayMakers: Debut

Off-Broadway / New York: What to Send Up When it Goes Down by Aleshea Harris (The Movement); This Land Was Made by Tori Sampson (Vineyard Theatre Lab); Macbeth in Stride (Joe’s Pub). She has developed work at: Ars Nova, Roundabout Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Juilliard, Bushwick Starr, NYU Tisch, Playwrights Realm, Page 73, Bard College, Luna Stage, Princeton University, SUNY Purchase, The Tank, The Lark, and more.

Regional: Br’er Cotton by Tearrance Chisholm (Endstation Theatre); Rita Tambien Rita by Tony Meneses (Juilliard); Othello (Trinity Rep).

Education / Other: Whitney is 2018 recipient of the Susan Stroman Directing Award. She is currently in residency with Ars Nova as part of their 2018 Makers Lab, where she is developing Definition an original concert-play, and The Drama League as part of their Next Wave Residency where she is developing an original adaptation of Anton Chekov’s Three Sisters, with music. She is an Associate Artist at Roundabout Theatre Company and was a 2050 fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. MFA Brown University / Trinity Rep. BA Northwestern. Whitney White is based in Brooklyn.

Shows at PlayMakers

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