Camp Kesher 2024 Scholar,
Maggid Marques Hollie
Maggid Marques Hollie (they/he) is an operatically-trained vocalist, ritual leader, andtheatre-maker, who has been telling (and singing!) stories for as long he can remember. Hebegan singing professionally in the late aughts, and after a particularly meaningful Passoverseder, began an artistic and spiritual exploration of their identities as a Queer, Black, and Jewishperson. So far, this exploration has revealed original music, niggunim, prose, and an originaltheatre piece called Go Down, Moshe. It also reinforced Marques’ fundamental belief thatJewish practice and ritual is an expansive container capable of holding all of our parts.Marques has had the distinct honor and privilege of creating and facilitating ritual andeducational experiences for Jewish communities in North America and the United Kingdom. Heis an alumnus of the Union for Reform Judaism’s JewV’Nation Fellowship, the LABA: ALaboratory for Jewish Culture Fellowship, a 2023 recipient of the Rabbi Moses Eckstein Prizefor Jewish Education awarded by the Philadelphia Board of Rabbis, and a past honoree of theNew York Jewish Week’s 36 to Watch list.Following a course of study in homiletics, liturgical interpretation, Torah exegesis, and thecanon of Jewish stories, Marques received ordination as a Maggid (sacred storyteller).Currently, he is a student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and in his spare time takespole and aerial classes, plays dodgeball with Stonewall Sports, serves on the board of SVARA,and dreams about playing the Baker in Sondheim’s Into The Woods.
