Maleah Joi Moon

CTL-E-5817 · Person · other · 2002–present

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Combined Graph record U-02934 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1060 + build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5817. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Maleah Joi Moon, born 22 September 2002 in Franklin Township, New Jersey, is an American actress and singer who became one of Broadway's youngest leading ladies. Raised in Franklin Township and a 2020 graduate of Franklin High School, she played Dorothy in a school production of The Wizard of Oz and took local theatre and singing classes before her first television work in Disney's 2022 talent showcase and the 2023 television film Mystic Christmas. In 2023 she won the lead role of Ali, the restless seventeen-year-old at the center of Hell's Kitchen, Alicia Keys's semi-autobiographical musical, at the Public Theater, and she carried the role to Broadway's Shubert Theatre in spring 2024. In June 2024 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, the third-youngest winner in the category's history, alongside a Drama Desk Award and a Theatre World Award. The Hell's Kitchen cast album then won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in February 2025, with Moon credited as a principal vocalist. She left the production in March 2025 and moved to series television as Deborah Wayne, daughter of Dwayne and Whitley, in Netflix's A Different World sequel series.

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• Role(s): actor

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Maleah Joi Moon entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5817 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 776 (Stage Actresses list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American stage figure (Franklin Township, New Jersey). Vital status: LIVING — Tony and Grammy winner in 2024–2025; cast as the lead of Netflix's A Different World sequel (2026 coverage). CONFLICTS CARRIED: TV Insider lists a 23 September 2002 birth date; Wikipedia gives 22 September 2002, which governs here; the variant is shown, not blended. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Hell's Kitchen) at 21, the third-youngest winner in the category; the Hell's Kitchen cast album won Best Musical Theater Album at the February 2025 Grammy Awards with Moon as a principal vocalist — Playbill/Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5817-maleah-joi-moon.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings and performances)

Relationships

• Alicia Keys — collaborated with
  Maleah Joi Moon originated the lead role of Ali in Hell's Kitchen, Alicia Keys's musical, at the Public Theater (2023) and on Broadway (2024), and recorded the new song "Kaleidoscope" with Keys, released as a single in March 2024; Alicia Keys is CTL-E-5191 in the live graph.
• Tony Awards 2024 — honored by
  VERIFIED FACT

Sources

• Playbill, performer page, "Maleah Joi Moon" — 2024 Tony Award, Best Actress in a Musical, Hell's Kitchen, Winner; Drama Desk Award Winner; Theatre World Award Winner — https://playbill.com/person/maleah-joi-moon (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Maleah Joi Moon" — born 22 September 2002, Franklin Township, New Jersey; Ali in Hell's Kitchen; Tony, Drama Desk and Theatre World Awards; Grammy for the cast album — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleah_Joi_Moon (build store)
• BroadwayWorld, performer biography, "Maleah Joi Moon" — Franklin High School class of 2020; Public Theater run November 2023–January 2024; Broadway transfer to the Shubert Theatre; left the production March 2025 — https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Maleah-Joi-Moon/ (build store)
• https://www.tonyawards.com/winners/year/2024/category/any/show/any/ (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Won Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical at the Tony Awards 2024 — per the official Tony Awards winners record (tonyawards.com), cross-checked on the per-year winners pages (fetched 2026-10-17)

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