Marjuan Canady
MA Arts Politics Class of 2010
BA Theater Performance and Africana Studies, Fordham University, 2008
Marjuan Canady is a Tony nominated Broadway Producer and award-winning Caribbean-American artist, entrepreneur, educator, literacy advocate, and mom. A native Washingtonian, her work spans theater, film, television, children’s media and literature. Named as a 2023, “Woman to Watch on Broadway”, Marjuan's Co-Producing Broadway credits include: “Hell’s Kitchen”, “The Wiz" and "Death of a Salesman". She was the 2021 inaugural Front Row Productions Fellow / Adjunct Research Scholar at Columbia University's MFA Theatre Management and Producing Program. She is currently Lead Producing and Co-writing the original musical, “Tap In”.
Her original work has been seen at The John F. Kennedy Center, Folger Shakespeare Library, Sesame Street, The Smithsonian, The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, The National Theatre, and the North Carolina Museum of Art. She is the CEO/ Author and Creative Director of the children's media brand, "Callaloo Kids". She has held fellowships and residencies at New York Stage and Film, The Schomburg Center, the DC Commission on the Arts, 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.
Marjuan is a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Fordham University and NYU Tisch. 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.
What drew you to the MA Arts Politics program?
What drew me to the M.A. in Arts Politics program is the flexibility of the curriculum and ability to study my specific artistic craft and arts activism.
How do you describe or identify your practice/ work?
My creative work is connected to my community, to my outlook and experiences as a first generation Caribbean-American women. I create work that is of high artistic integrity that reflects the reality of the world that I see as a woman of color.
How did your experience in the program shape your work?
The program was the beginning of me creating my own original work that included all of my key areas of interest: theatre, film, new media, social justice, education, african diaspora history, Black feminism