Anna Marcus-Hecht

Biography

Anna Marcus-Hecht is a composer from Ithaca, NY, currently residing in Manhattan. She has a B.M. in composition from Ithaca College, and an MFA in musical theatre writing from NYU Tisch (Cycle 31). Her one act musical, MACHA (cowritten by Maria Elizabeth White), has been seen at the 2023 Spark Theatre Festival. Anna's other theatrical works include MOVING ON, a short play performed at the 2022 Soop to Nuts festival, and TIME'S APPRENTICE, a musical that was self produced and virtually performed in Summer 2021.

Anna's other theatrical work includes an internship for experimental NYC theatre company Unattended Baggage, where she worked as general manager for the off-off-broadway run of COWL GIRL by Anna Capunay (2023). She has also had a long-time partnership with local Ithaca theatre company Walking on Water, providing orchestrations for their original show KATRINA: A NEW MUSICAL (2019), and audio mixing for their virtual pandemic productions of A VIRTUAL CABARET (2020) and COMFORT FOOD (2021). She has also served on the judges panel for their 2021 WoW's Now festival.

Aside from theatrical work, Anna composes for video games and other media. She is the lead composer and voice director at Studio June games.