[citation needed] During a period of homelessness in 2008, White was recognized by NYPD Officer David Taylor in Manhattan's Greenwich Village 6th Precinct, who helped her find a place to live.
[6][7] She received the nomination for 2010 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for Finian's Rainbow.
[8] She later assumed the role of Mama Morton in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago in April 2010.
Prior to its closing in 2007, she regularly performed at Rose's Turn in Manhattan's West Village, where she was employed as a bartender.
[14] White and Donna Barnett were married in a same-sex marriage ceremony at the St. James Theatre on July 25, 2011.