About Katherine

Curating thoughtful experiences centered on play, creativity, and connection

I’m passionate about creating spaces where Black women can laugh, loosen up, reconnect with themselves, and experience play without pressure or judgment.

Improv became deeply important to me because it gave me more than laughter. It gave me community when I didn’t have it. It reignited my creativity when it was fading. It reminded me how freeing it feels to be fully present, playful, expressive, and human. That experience changed me, and it’s what people feel when they enter a Black Laughter Collective experience.

Through interactive workshops, curated experiences, and play-centered facilitation, I create spaces that help people step outside performance mode and reconnect with joy, confidence, creativity, and authentic connection. As an experienced facilitator using play, improv, and conversation to create connection, confidence, joy, and presence, my approach is thoughtful, low-pressure, engaging, and grounded in the belief that play still matters deeply in adulthood.

I bring years of experience to both the stage and the facilitation space. I trained and earned certification in improvisation technique and performance from Stomping Ground Theater and later served as a coach with The Formula, an improv comedy jam for Black improvisers. I was also a member of Yo Little Friends, the only all-Black women’s improv troupe in Dallas, Texas, where I co-produced, directed, and performed in shows.

My experience also includes performing at Stomping Ground Theater and Dallas Comedy Club, producing virtual comedy experiences with The Black Improv Alliance, and learning from incredible comedy professionals, including Lisa Beasley (Corporate Erin). Since 2025, I’ve facilitated experiences in the Mexican Caribbean designed to help Black women laugh, play, connect, and create in a supportive environment. I’ve also facilitated interactive improv experiences for students designed to ignite creativity, confidence, self-expression, and connection.

Community is at the center of everything I do. I believe laughter, creativity, and joy should feel accessible, restorative, and welcoming. Black women especially deserve spaces where we can soften, play, express ourselves freely, and simply exist without the constant pressure to perform.

Katherine M. White
Founder of The Black Laughter Collective