Marjuan Canady

Website: www.marjuancanady.com
Biography: Marjuan Canady, a native Washingtonian with Caribbean and African-American roots, is an actress, writer, producer and cultural worker. Her most recent body of work explores the black female body as an exploitative used image – from the Venus Hottentot to video vixens. A Schomburg Mellon and Matteo Ricci Fellow, she has integrated Africana intellectual thought with satirical performance. Her one wo...man play, “Girls! Girls? Girls.” has appeared Off-Broadway in the United Solo Theater Festival. Other credits include: New York University, George Washington University, Columbia University, St. John's College and Black on White with Theater for the Free People. Upcoming performances include The One Festival at Teatro Latea in April 2011 and the Pam 2011 Teatro Todo Vanguardia Festival in NYC in the Summer of 2011.

Past credits include: “For Colored Girls…” “Twenty One Positions”, Zemira (film), "Cold War Kids" and "Slipknot" (webisode). She holds a B.A. in Theater and African/African-American Studies from Fordham University and an M.A. in Art and Public Policy from New York University. She has also trained at Moscow Art Theater School, Negro Ensemble Company, with Augusto Boal and Anna Deavere Smith and is a graduate of The Duke Ellington School of the Arts. She is the founder and creative director of Sepia Works and is currently a member of The Movement Theatre Company. She continues to work as a teaching artist in schools, colleges and community centers. She resides in NYC.

Source: Official Website