Jody Ingalls’ Bio

Related to American author and pioneer Laura Ingalls Wilder and a published author herself (Romantic Homes, Victoria Magazine, Lillenas Drama), Jody uses a background in English Education and theater/choral experience to bring women from history to life for audiences of all ages.

Click here for current program offerings, including Encore History’s most recent project, I’ll Be Home for Christmas (CD recording and live show).

Jody and her husband David have five children and live in central Kentucky at Castle Hill Haven (www.castlehillhaven.com).

Jody started portraying local history when her husband reported for service at Fort Knox in 2006. In 2012, Jody established Stories to Inspire Kentucky to share stories of women with roots in Kentucky history. As new characters were added and audiences expanded across the country, Stories to Inspire Kentucky changed its name to Encore History. With expanding audiences and stories, Encore History continues the to preserve local Kentucky stories; when she’s in Kentucky, Jody can be seen on summer Thursday nights portraying the famous Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lind, on the steps of the Brown Pusey House* in the Elizabethtown Downtown Walking Tour.

*(Called Hill’s Hotel when Jenny sang there in 1851 during her famous P.T. Barnum 1850-1851 North American tour)