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J. Steven White

Mr. White is excited to be working once more with Edwaard Liang. He created the sword choreography in Mr. Liang’s Romeo and Juliet, performed for Tulsa Ballet in both 2012 and 2016. Throughout his forty-three-year career, he has worked at most of the major professional theaters in America such as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Southcoast Rep and Cleveland’s Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival. For The Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival, his fight work has been seen in 22 shows including Julius Caesar with Jeffrey Wright, The Taming of the Shrew with Alison Janney and Jay O. Sanders, Macbeth with Alec Baldwin, King Lear with F. Maury Abrahams, and Cymbeline with Liev Schreiber and Michael C. Hall, whom Mr. White trained at NYU-Tisch.

His Broadway credits include The Pillowman, Bombay Dreams, Uncle Vanya, A View from the Bridge, Golden Child, The Lion In Winter with Laurence Fishburne, All My Sons, as well as Shogun: The Musical (Associate Director). His fights have played across the stages of every major New York Theater including MTC, CSC, Playwrights Horizons, The Roundabout, and the Irish Repertory Theatre.

Mr. White spent 11 seasons at American Conservatory Theater, where he began his teaching career. He is on the faculties of the Stella Adler Studio, New York and the Graduate Acting Program at NYU-Tisch.