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In the US, managed theaters with her husband Robert Paine Grose, and directed and performed in productions, In the UK, founded and operated the Next Stage Company, for training young drama school graduates, and the Joan White English Theatre School.

She was a British actress, theatre director and educator who over a career that spanned 65 years became a popular figure on the London stage, appeared in films and television and produced and directed plays on both sides of the Atlantic, and trained many of the young to follow in her footsteps.

White joined the Drama Faculty of the University of Washington in Seattle, teaching and directing. One of her students was Patrick Duffy. In 1970 under the aegis of the university she initiated the English Summer Theatre School. Under this, students travelled to England to study and observe English drama and to perform.

Over 1933 and 1934 several plays in London theatres had very short runs, including Our Mutual Father with a young Rex Harrison.

As a master of the art of high comedy she entertained numberless audiences, and through her students left an indelible mark on the future of her profession.

Mother of Judy Staber, who works in pantomimes in the USA.

She has two daughters the eldest being Susannah Slater who resides in London England. Member of TACT the actors children's trust. Currently working with Blind Aid and the talking newspapers.

Extensive career on the stage, including playing Mrs Higgins in the US National Tour of My Fair Lady.

Her daughter, Judy White Staber, is a former actress/stage manager, and Arts professional, now a writer living in the Hudson Valley of New York State. She has written fifteen original British American Pantomimes, a memoir "Silverlands Growing Up at the Actors Orphanage," as well as many news articles and poems. She recently completed a memoir of her late Mother, Joan White.

Two American granddaughters and two American great-grandsons. Also two granddaughters and one grandson in UK along with three great grandsons and one great grand-daughter.