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ABOUT MARCIA
Marcia E. Cole (Playwright/Poet/Actor/Author/Educator) - is a native Washingtonian. During her years as a returning college student at the University of the District of Columbia where she earned her BA in 2014, she won the College Language Association Creative Writing contest across three genres: Drama A Matter of Worth (2008), Poetry A Bitter Suite 1st Prize (2011) and Short Story Capitalis (2012). Based on encouraging remarks about the quality of her writing and the contest wins, she continued to develop her creative voice to tell aspects of African American history as she discovered them.
She is a strong advocate for literacy and believes all the arts are essential to understanding the world we live in. The arts allow us to examine the past and present and look to the future. She is the author of Light in Dark Places History in Verse ( 2018) and Behold a Ball of Light History in Verse (2020) -- poetry collections that explore aspects of the African American experience in danger of being overlooked or forgotten.
A Matter of Worth, her first play, has been performed at Petworth Library (2012); Anacostia Museum (2013, 2014); and University of DC (2015). In September 2015 it was a fully-staged production, part of DC’s first Women’s Voices Theater Festival, and received highly favorable industry reviews. Ms. Cole was invited to star in a new play reading on the life of Maya Angelou And Still I Rise a Tribute to Maya Angelou by playwright Rickey Hood (2015) at Anacostia Community Museum. In 2018, she acted as consultant on script development for America’s Talking: A People’s Mosaic directed by Wanda Whiteside. She has collaborated with historian Dr. Susan Strasser to present A Double Take on Lynching: Two Compelling Voices - an Illustrated Lecture and Poetry.
Ms. Cole often appears in period costume, offering her audience an intimate opportunity to engage with those in the past as in Going for Freedom: True Accounts of Flight in Verse. Since 2016 she has been a member of F.R.E.E.D. – Female Re-Enactors of Distinction – an auxiliary of the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, DC where she portrays Charlotte Scott - "A Friend of Lincoln."
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