She has also received three other Tony Award nominations for her performances in Airline Highway in 2013, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus in 2019 and POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive in 2022.

She is also known for her television roles, including Nadine Swoboda in Chuck Lorre created ABC sitcom Grace Under Fire (1993-1997) as well as Ms. Preecher in American Horror Story (2023-2024).

Other notable appearances on television include guest roles on Six Feet Under (2001-2002), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003-2007), Desperate Housewives (2006), Nurse Jackie (2014) and The Good Wife (2015).

While she was playing the lead role in the musical The Baker's Wife, the show's authors encouraged her to take her talent to New York City.

[10][11] She appeared in Just Say No (1988) and in the Off-Broadway WPA Theatre production of Early One Evening At the Rainbow Bar and Grille (1989) by Bruce Graham.

[14] She appeared at the Off-Broadway Second Stage production of the Theresa Rebeck play Spike Heels with Kevin Bacon and Tony Goldwyn in 1992.

Rail-thin but with a broad face and features, this actress has an off-center style and piquant wit that make her a natural for high comedy of this or any other period.

[19] In 2006, she appeared Off-Broadway in The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane, playing Diane, a screen agent, who, as one critic put it, is "a Mephistopheles in Manolos".

[20] The show transferred to Broadway in October 2006 with a new cast, including former Grace Under Fire costar Tom Everett Scott.

[23] White has subsequently made several guest appearances on HBO's Six Feet Under as Mitzi Dalton-Huntley[24][25] and on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Anne Morella.

[36] In July 2017, White took over the role of Nora in A Doll's House, Part 2 at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway, succeeding Laurie Metcalf.