In addition to working the past fourteen years as the Resident Choreographer of West Orange High School’s Theatre Department, she has worked professionally with many of Central Florida’s theatre companies including Orlando Repertory Theatre, Garden Theatre, Bay Street Players, IceHouse Theatre, Rollins College, and Osceola Center for the Arts.

Mrs. Whitman most recently worked on mounting her premiere production of "The Prom," which was chosen to perform as a Mainstage at the 2023 Florida State Thespian Festival. Mainstage is a prestigious invitation offered to only a select few schools out of the entire state to present their show in its entirety at the State festival. The previous year, the department's show "Pippin" was invited to perform at the festival, with the year prior's production of "Lord of the Flies" also being presented as a Mainstage, as was Mrs. Whitman’s premiere of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s “Bright Star” in 2018, which had the distinction of being invited to Mainstage at the State level as well as the International level.  The department presented “42nd Street” as a mainstage the year prior, making “The Prom” Tara’s seventh consecutive Mainstage.