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name: "Steven Canals"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/steven-canals"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "14 September 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T18:17:29.727424+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Steven Canals

Producer and director. Born 14 September 1980 in Bronx, New York.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 14 September 1980, Bronx, New York
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Canals, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83854821, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6955079/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1661847

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*POSE*](https://film.one/tv/pose.md) (78)

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## Biography

Steven Canals (born 14 September 1980) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He grew up in the Bronx, New York, in housing projects in the Castle Hill neighbourhood, and is of African American and Puerto Rican heritage. He earned a BA in cinema and an MA in student affairs from Binghamton University, followed by an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA in 2015.

Canals is best known as co-creator, writer and director of the FX series *Pose* (2018–2021), which he developed while at UCLA. He previously served as a staff writer on the Freeform series *Dead of Summer* (2016) and has directed episodes of series including *Love, Victor* (2022) and *Class of '09* (2023). He signed an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television in 2020.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *POSE* (2018), Fi1m 78, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/pose.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *STREET SMART: Lessons from a TV Icon* (2025), Producer
- *Doctor Odyssey* (2024), series, Director
- *American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez* (2024), series, Director
- *Class of '09* (2023), series, Director
- *The Sex Lives of College Girls* (2021), series, Director
- *Love, Victor* (2020), series, Director
- *POSE* (2018), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/pose.md)
- *Dead of Summer* (2016), series, Writer
- *Afuera* (2016), Writer

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