Marjuan canady

Marjuan Canady is a Tony Nominated Broadway Producer and award-winning multi-hypendated artist, entrepreneur, educator, cultural worker, literacy advocate, and mom. A DC native with Trinidadian roots, her work spans theater, film, television, children’s media and literature. Marjuan centers her work in the intersectionality of the African Diasporic experience, with a focus on uplifting the narratives of black and brown girls and women. Her original work has been seen on Sensical TV, on Issa Rae’s Hoorae Media, on Sesame Street, at The John F. Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian, The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, The National Theatre, The Folger Theatre, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. She is the CEO/ Author and Creative Director of the children's media brand, "Callaloo Kids", that promotes cultural literacy through African Diaspora folklore and food culture through children’s books, animation, live theater and arts education.

In 2023, Canady was awarded the DC Mayor’s Arts Larry Neal Writer’s Award and was also named a “Woman to Watch on Broadway '' by the Broadway Women’s Fund. Marjuan's Co-Producing Broadway credits include Alicia Key’s “Hell’s Kitchen”, “The WIZ" and "Death of a Salesman". She is currently co-writing and Lead Producing her first commercial musical entitled, “Tap In”, featuring the internationally celebrated female tap dance company, The Syncopated Ladies.

She is a 13-time DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellow. Marjuan is Founder of her production company Sepia Works LLC and her non-profit, the Canady Foundation for the Arts, a cultural arts non-profit that empowers DMV youth of color through arts education, activism, and community outreach.