About Marjuan

Marjuan Canady is a versatile and fearless playwright, producer and actress on both the stage and on screen. Canady began her acting training at the world-renowned performing arts high school Duke Ellington School of the Arts under the direction of Kenneth Johnson and Mike Malone. She is the 2010 Runner-up of Malik Yoba and Attika Torrence’s IFNY Monologue Slam Competition. Canady will be seen next in the independent feature film In the Ruff  (directed by Omar Derby). In February 2013 she is slated to direct The Vagina Monologues in Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. in collaboration with Tobago Indo Multi-Cultural Association.

Her One-Woman Play, Girls! Girls? Girls. directed by Noelle Ghoussaini has been featured Off-Broadway at The United Solo Festival, The One Festival, The Performing Arts Marathon Festival, The GIRL TALK Tour, Love Us Festival, The New Orleans Fringe Festival as well as over fifty colleges and community organizations nationwide. Vivian Deangelo, Artistic/ Executive Director of New York City’s IATI Theatre say’s Girls! Girls? Girls. is “A very entertaining, unpredictable and smart show”. Canady recently received the 2010 Harlem Stage Fund for New Work Grant for her one woman Girls! Girls? Girls.

Stage credits include For Colored Girls Who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf (directed by Tracie Jenkins), Twenty-One Positions by Naomi Wallace (directed by Lisa Peterson), Life is a Dream (directed by George Drance), Slavs! (directed by Lawrence Sacharow), Boogie Woogie Landscapes (directed by Anna Lag).

Film Credits include Slipknot (directed by La Shell Wooten), Cold War Children (directed by Marcus Costillo), Zemira (directed by Curtis John).

Canady is also a youth arts educator and community organizer. A Matteo Ricci and Schomburg Mellon Fellow, she has worked with organizations such as Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, Theatre for the Free People, College Summit, Tobago Indo Multi-Cultural Association, Ocean Ana Rising, Creative Minds in Cannes and Monolodge. She is a member of The Movement Theatre Company and Women Arts. Canady is the founder and creative director of her entertainment production company Sepia Works.

Originally from Washington, DC, Canady is a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Fordham University Lincoln Center (Honors-B.A. Theatre Performance and African/African-American Studies) and New York University (M.A. Arts Politics-Tisch School of the Arts).