Marques Hollie, Cooperberg-Rittmaster Rabbinical Intern

Marques Hollie (they/he) is an operatically-trained vocalist, ritual leader, and theatre-maker, who has been telling (and singing!) stories for as long he can remember. He began singing professionally in the late aughts, and after a particularly meaningful Passover seder, began a creative and spiritual exploration of their identities as a Queer, Black, and Jewish person, generating original music, niggunim, liturgy, and an original theatre piece called Go Down, Moshe. It also reinforced Marques’ fundamental belief that Jewish practice and ritual is an expansive container capable of holding all of our parts. Following a course of study in homiletics, liturgy, Torah exegesis, and the canon 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 takes 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.