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 is currently an Artist in Residence at Eaton DC, a Docs In Progress Fellow and an Artist Research Scholar at The Folger Shakespeare Library. She was the Spring 2024 Kennedy Center Social Impact Local Playwright in Residence and a Research Scholar for The August Wilson Society. Recent 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 DC Mayor’s Arts LARRY NEAL Writers Award. Her Co-Producing Broadway credits include: "Purple Rain”, Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen, The WIZ, and Death of a Salesman. She was the 2021-2022 inaugural Front Row Productions Fellow / Adjunct Research Scholar at Columbia University MFA Theatre Management and Producing Program. 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. Marjuan has held fellowships at The Kennedy Center, The Schomburg Center, , the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Lincoln Center, Harlem Stage, and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. 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. in 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 five year old daughter.

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