After screening her short films
Diamonds in the Bucket and
Spoiled at numerous festivals, White wrote and directed the Genie-nominated feature film
Crackie, which premiered at the 34th annual Toronto International Film Festival. She then gained experience as a writer, producer, and showrunner on series such as the
Shondaland crime drama
The Catch, the police drama
Rookie Blue, the
Kyra Sedgwick-starring drama
Ten Days in the Valley, and the CBC comedy-drama
Little Dog, which earned her two nominations for the Directors Guild of Canada. White has also written and produced for
Orphan Black,
Burden of Truth, and
Saving Hope, and consulted on many other shows. As an actress, White has performed in various theatre productions, TV series and films. In the mid 2000s, she was cast in the ensemble mockumentary series
Hatching, Matching and Dispatching alongside
Mary Walsh,
Mark McKinney, Susan Kent, Rick Boland, Jonny Harris, and
Joel Thomas Hynes. White reprised her role as Myrna Furey-Meany in 2017 for
A Christmas Fury, a TV movie based on the series. In 2018, White's script for the feature film
Maudie, starring
Sally Hawkins and
Ethan Hawke, won her the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay. Together with
Tassie Cameron, White co-created the action-packed female buddy cop series
Pretty Hard Cases, which premiered on CBC Television in February 2021. White served as co-showrunner throughout the show's three-season run and directed four episodes. She and Cameron received a Writers Guild of Canada award in 2022 for penning the episode “Bananas”. At the
2025 Atlantic International Film Festival, she won the Best Atlantic Director award for her film
Blueberry Grunt. ==Filmography==