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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, and literacy advocate. A D.C. native, her work spans theater, film, television, children’s media, and literature. Canaday is the recipient of the 2023 D.C. Mayor’s Arts Larry Neal Writers’ Award. She is currently a coproducer on the national tour and 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 MFA Theatre Management and Producing Program. 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, the Miami Book Fair, the 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. Canady has held fellowships at the Kennedy Center, the Schomburg Center, 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 the nonprofit 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. Marjuan is the proud mom of her four-year-old daughter, Savannah.