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MARJUAN CANADY

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Marjuan Canady posed in an animal print jumpsuit on a stool with a gray/green background with her arms comfortably laid in front of her.

ABOUT MARJUAN

Named as a 2023 Woman to Watch on Broadway, Marjuan Canady is a Tony Nominated Broadway Producer and award-winning Caribbean-American artist, entrepreneur, educator, artist-scholar and literacy advocate. A DC native, her work spans theater, film, television, children's media and literature. Marjuan's original work centers and celebrates the complexities of Black women in the Diaspora, Her original work has been seen on Hoorae Media, Sensical TV, Sesame Street, at The John F. Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian, The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, The National Theatre, and Folger Shakespeare Library. She is the CEO/Author

and Creative Director of the children's media brand, Callaloo Kids.

Co-Producing Broadway credits include: "Purple Rain", Alicia

Keys' "Hell's Kitchen", "The WIZ", and "Death of a Salesman".

UK credits: "Barbie: The Movie Immersive Experience".

Marjuan has held fellowships at The Black Genius

Foundation,The Kennedy Center, The Folger Shakespeare

Library, TheSchomburg Center, the Caribbean Cultural

enter African Diaspora Institute, Lincoln Center, Harlem

Stage, and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.​

Named as a 2023 Woman to Watch on Broadway, Marjuan Canady is a Tony Nominated Broadway Producer and award-winning Caribbean-American artist, entrepreneur, educator, artist-scholar and literacy advocate. A DC native, her work spans theater, film, television, children's media and literature. Marjuan's original work centers and celebrates the complexities of Black women in the Diaspora, Her original work has been seen on Hoorae Media, Sensical TV, Sesame Street, at The John F. Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian, The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, The National Theatre, and Folger Shakespeare Library. She is the CEO/Author and Creative Director of the children's media brand, Callaloo Kids. Co-Producing Broadway credits include: "Purple Rain", Alicia Keys' "Hell's Kitchen", "The WIZ", and "Death of a Salesman". UK credits: "Barbie: The Movie Immersive Experience". Marjuan has held fellowships at The Black Genius Foundation,The Kennedy Center, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Schomburg Center, the Caribbean Cultural enter African Diaspora Institute, Lincoln Center, Harlem Stage, and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.​

Marjuan Canady posed in an animal print jumpsuit on a wooden apple box with a gray/green background.

Canady most recently adapted and directed the world premiere theatrical performance of the landmark "The 1619 Project: Born on the Water" by Nikole Hannah Jones. Reent awards include: 2025 Arena Stage Steeped in Success Leadership Award, 2024 NYU Alumni Change Maker Award, 2024 Power of She Iota Phi Lambda Award, 2023 D Mayor's Arts LARRY NEAL Writers Award. She was the 2021-2022 inaugural Front Row Productions Fellow / Adjunct Research Program. A creative-social-entrepreneur, Canady 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, and holds her B.A. on Theatre / African Studies Fordham University and her M.A. in Arts Politics from 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 six year old daughter.

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Marjuan currently serves as Associate Professor of the Theatre and Film at Montgomery College in the Visual and Performing Arts Department.

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