Jody Ingalls’ Bio

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

Click here for current program offerings, including Encore History’s latest project, I’ll Be Home for Christmas (CD recording).

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

Jody started studying local history when her family moved to Kentucky in 2006. In 2012, Jody established Stories to Inspire Kentucky to research and perform 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 ideas (currently exploring family-connected Laura Ingalls as a new character), Jody continues her love of local Kentucky stories. She can still 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)