Anna Marck
“Women of the Watch, Keepers of the Light,” written and performed by Anna Marck and directed by D.B. Schroeder, is an uplifting 45-minutes of music, laughter, and simple honest storytelling. The play follows Anna as she relives family trips to lighthouses in Michigan, which ignites a passion to share the spectacular stories of various female lighthouse keepers of the Great Lakes. She details the lives of four particular keepers by donning voice and movement. As she steps into these brave women’s shoes, she discovers the tragedy of the hardships they faced and the beauty of their spirits. Each show is followed by a Q&A talkback for an hour-long presentation.
Lighthouse Keepers featured: Julia Sheridan (South Manitou Island Lighthouse), Mary Terry (Sand Point Lighthouse, Escanaba), Harriet Colfax (Michigan City Lighthouse), and Elizabeth Whitney Williams (Beaver Island and Little Traverse Light, Harbor Springs)
Thursday, August 1, 2024
7:00-8:30 pm
Holland Museum
FREE Family Cultural Lens program
Anna Marck Biography
Anna Marck is a performer, writer, and ecological gardener based in Royal Oak, Michigan. She studied Musical Theatre at Oakland University and spent time in Chicago writing and performing sketch comedy and working as an actress and teaching artist with theater companies in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and New York. In 2019, she co-founded Cayuga Climate Action in Auburn, NY: a group of concerned community members working to educate, advocate, and act on the climate crisis. While there, she cultivated her passions for holistic health and permaculture by working at Silver Tree Forest Farm. Currently, she works with Garden Juju Collective (www.gardenjujucollective.com): a team of skilled practitioners dedicated to healing places, communities, and people.
She’s passionate about using storytelling and music to facilitate the collective imagining of a world where we heal the land, undo our broken systems, and rebuild ecosystems that work for every living thing. She believes wholeheartedly in grassroots movements that create more fairness for everyone, especially those who have been historically oppressed and excluded. She actively pursues thoughtfulness, hope, and joy in herself and her projects.
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