Marjuan Canady is changing the future of Theatre: from DC to Broadway

Sepia Works and Canady Foundation for the Arts both based in Washington DC, are making waves in the entertainment industry. Marjuan Canady, Caribbean-American female Producer makes Broadway debut and goes on to win a major fellowship and Artist Spotlight Award.

Marjuan Canady represents many communities, just like her stories. She is a first-generation Caribbean-American woman from Washington, DC. Marjuan is no stranger to producing. She has been producing internationally both on stage and screen for the last twelve years.

The future of Diversity and Equity in American Theatre depends on diversifying its producers. So it’s inclusive to women and people of color. DC producer, writer and entrepreneur, Marjuan Canady is one producer leading the way. Canady will make her Broadway co-Producing debut with the American classic, Death of a Salesman. It opens at the Hudson Theatre on October 9th.

Canady is no amateur producer. She was selected as the inaugural 2021-2022 Fellow for the Front Row Productions Fellowship. In partnership with Columbia University, led by veteran producers, and two of the only Black Lead Producers on Broadway, Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey. For the last year, Marjuan commuted to New York City weekly, to attend producing courses in the MFA Theatre Management and Producing Program at Columbia University all while juggling life as a new mother.

The Fellowship provided an opportunity for Marjuan to study in London, UK as well as funding to produce her own production. Canady is now Lead Producing her musical, Tap In, which is currently in development and featuring an all-star team of Black and Brown creatives both on and off stage.

Following a critically acclaimed run in London, this vibrant and timely production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman“ comes to Broadway for a strictly limited engagement. Olivier Award nominee Wendell Pierce (“The Wire,” “Jack Ryan”) and Olivier Award winner and 2022 Tony Award^® nominee Sharon D Clarke (“Caroline, or Change”; “Doctor Who”) reprise their roles as Willy and Linda Loman in a story told – for the first time on Broadway – from the perspective of an African American family.

Directed by Miranda Cromwell – who won an Olivier Award alongside co-director Marianne Elliott for the West End and Young Vic productions – this powerful interpretation of Miller’s classic drama illuminates the dark underbelly of the American Dream and its elusive promise of equality and opportunity for all. “I’m so thrilled to make my Broadway producing debut with this production” says Marjuan,

“This play is not only a classic in the American Theatre canon, but it also features a truly diverse team on and off the stage. There are so many young producers making their Broadway debut with this production, providing space for early producers to deepen their understanding and participation in the commercial theatre industry. This production highlights what happens when “we” can all meet at the table and make a powerful piece of art.”

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