Named as a 2023, Woman to Watch on Broadway, Marjuan Canady is a Broadway Producer and award-winning Caribbean-American artist, entrepreneur, educator, and literacy advocate. A DC native, her work spans theater, film, television, children’s media and literature. Marjuan is the 2023 DC Mayor’s Arts LARRY NEAL Writer’s Awardee. She is currently a Co-Producer on the National Tour / Broadway revival production of The WIZ and the Broadway production of Alicia Key’s Hell’s Kitchen. Canady made her Broadway Producing debut on the 2022 production of Death of a Salesman. She was the 2021-2022 inaugural Front Row Productions Fellow / Adjunct Research Scholar at Columbia University Theatre Management and Producing Program. Her original work has been seen at The John F. Kennedy Center, Sesame Street, The Smithsonian, The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, The National Theatre, Miami Book Fair, Ryan Seacrest Foundation and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute. She is the CEO/ Author and Creative Director of the children's media brand, Callaloo Kids. Marjuan has held fellowships at The Schomburg Center, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Lincoln Center, Harlem Stage, and the Anacostia Arts Center. She is the Founder of her production company Sepia Works and non-profit, Canady Foundation for the Arts. Canady is a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Fordham University and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, Actors Equity Association, Dramatist Guild, and the Parent Artist Advocacy League. She is the proud mom of her four year old daughter, Savannah.