Brooklyn-bred T. D. White participated in Manhattan College's four-year Humanities program for his first Bachelor's Degree, and after twelve years as a publishing executive, would precipitously launch a creative career that would lead to his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting and Musical Theatre in 2000 from Marymount Manhattan College and his Masters in  the Theatre Arts from Hunter College of the City University of New York (2005), which produced a translation of Jean Jullien's 1889 Naturalist manifesto, Le Theatre Vivant (The Living Theatre).

A card-carrying (SAG-AFTRA-AEA) NYC actor-singer-writer with frequent history in Sex and the City, Law and Order, La Mama e.t.c., and numerous off, off-off and way off  (and under) Broadway productions and commercials as teacher, Hemingway, an Amish man, a homeless man, a Nobel Laureate and a Cardinal, as D. H. Lawrence too and as any number of Shakespearean characters, he can be seen nightly (four of them anyway), live, at the world-famous Corner Bistro on West 4th St. and 8th Ave. 

He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Executive Producer of  Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau de Jacques Prevert, an award-winning fifteen minute short film, un court-metrage, (Jacques Prevert's To Paint the Portrait of a Bird) available in English translation by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and in Italian by actor Vincenzo Amato, with narrations by middle school students of the United Nations International School.

Upcoming projects in Spring 2010 include the production of Dinner on the Riviera in 16 mm, a short piece set primarily in New York's West Village, and a live one-act light comedy called I See a Voice workshopping with The Shelter, a cooperative company of New York City actors, writers, directors.