"Ingersoll conducts a veritable master class with her acting, and vocally her performance is equally as astounding. She dives into each song with an intoxicating blend of mesmerizing vocal prowess and raw emotion, just as Garland herself was able to do." -Perform Ink
Angela Ingersoll is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated actress, singer, writer, director, and host. She headlines stages nationwide in Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland, receiving an Emmy nomination for her performance in the concert's television broadcast on PBS. She also won acclaim starring as Judy Garland in several productions of End of the Rainbow, winning Chicago's Jeff Award, a BroadwayWorld Award, and LA Times Woman of the Year in Theatre. Attracting the attention of Garland’s family, she collaborated onstage with Joey Luft, earning the title "heiress apparent to the Garland legacy." Other theatre: Follies in concert (Sally Durant Plummer), How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Hedy LaRue, Jeff Award nomination), South Pacific (Nellie Forbush), Carousel (Julie Jordan), The Secret Garden (Martha, Jeff Award nomination), The Mistress Cycle (Anais Nin, Jeff Award nomination), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth, Ostrander Award), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Quickly), Richard III (Lady Anne), The Comedy of Errors (Luciana), The 39 Steps (Woman), Jekyll and Hyde (Lucy, Ostrander Award), Man of La Mancha (Aldonza, Ostrander Award nomination), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Belle, Ostrander Award), Bat Boy: The Musical (Shelley, Ostrander Award), Ragtime (Evelyn Nesbit, Ostrander Award nomination), Nine (Carla), The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy), and work with The Second City (Chicago and Hollywood). Other television: Chicago PD. She is a graduate of Ithaca College, where she studied Opera and graduated with a BFA in Acting. Other concerts include her holiday romp The 12 Dames of Christmas and appearances alongside her spouse, performer and producer Michael Ingersoll. Together the couple founded Artists Lounge Live, a Chicago-based company creating and producing concerts nationwide. She is the Artistic Director of Artists Lounge Live, writing and directing many of the company’s offerings. artistsloungelive.com / IG: @angela_ingersoll / angelaingersoll.com
Further Credits
Theatre credits include: Follies in concert (Sally Durant Plummer) Porchlight Music Theatre at The Studebaker; End of the Rainbow (Judy Garland) Chicago: Porchlight Music Theatre; Los Angeles: La Mirada Theatre and Laguna Playhouse; St Louis: Max & Louie Productions at The Grandel); How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Hedy LaRue, Jeff Award nomination) Marriott Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice) Notre Dame Shakespeare; Richard III (Lady Anne), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Quickly), Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits (Titania/Katharine), The Comedy of Errors (Luciana) Chicago Shakespeare Theater; The Great Gatsby (Myrtle) Indiana Repertory Theatre; The Game’s Afoot (Daria), The 39 Steps (Annabella/Pamela/Margaret) Drury Lane Theatre; The Mistress Cycle (Anais Nin, Jeff Award nomination) Apple Tree/ Auditorium Theatre; Carousel (Julie Jordan) Madison Rep; South Pacific (Nellie Forbush) Music Theatre Works; The Secret Garden (Martha, Jeff Award nomination) Porchlight; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Belle, Ostrander Award), Jekyll and Hyde (Lucy, Ostrander Award), Macbeth (Lady Macbeth, Ostrander Award), Bat Boy: The Musical (Shelley, Ostrander Award), Man of La Mancha (Aldonza, Ostrander Award nomination), Ragtime (Evelyn Nesbit, Ostrander Award nomination), Nine (Carla), The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy) Playhouse on the Square. Proud union member, AEA and SAG/AFTRA.
Television credits include Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland (Star, Emmy Award nomination, Associate Producer) PBS; Chicago PD (Annie, recurring) NBC, and appearing as a jingle-singing spokesperson for Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Additional television credits include commercials for Georgia Boot, and First Tennessee Bank. Voice overs include television, radio, gaming, and internet media including Electronic Arts, Paramount Theme Parks, and Time Warner Cable.
Concerts include Get Happy: Angela Ingersoll Sings Judy Garland, The 12 Dames of Christmas with Angela Ingersoll, Michael and Angela Ingersoll in Concert, Showstoppers: Divas Do Broadway, and Andrews Sisters harmonies in A Bing Crosby Christmas with Artists Lounge Live. Additional concert appearances include Barbra & Judy Together Again at The Studebaker with renowned impersonator Simply Barbra supporting Season of Concern Chicago; hosting and/or performing in Chicago's yearly Belting for Life fundraiser; co-hosting the 40th anniversary Ruby Gala for AIDS Foundation Chicago; hosting Porchlight's New Faces Sing Broadway 1956; Porchlight's 25th ICONS Gala, Chicago Sings Broadway Pop, and Chicago Sings 30 Years of Porchlight at House of Blues Chicago; The Sarah Siddons Society Honors Beth Leavel at The Arts Club of Chicago; The Beautiful City Project at Davenport's; Monday Nights New Voices with composers Andrew Lippa, Michael Mahler, and Alan Schmuckler; and Harry Shearer and Judith Owen's Christmas Without Tears.
Additional Chicago theatre credits include workshop readings of Jo and Liv (Olivia de Havilland) Goodman Theatre and Writer's Theatre; The People vs Friar Laurence (Benvolio) The Second City/Steppenwolf Theatre Company; benefit performances of Pulp (Bing Cherry) About Face Theatre; the original cast of How Can You Run With a Shell On Your Back? (Riley), Macbeth (Witch), The History Of Cardenio (reading-Lucinda) Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Rex with composer Sheldon Harnick (Anne Boleyn/Elizabeth) Stages Festival Chicago; High Fidelity (reading-Liz) Route 66 Theatre Company; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Woman 1) Metropolis; A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania), Julius Caesar (Portia) A Crew of Patches.
She spent her early professional years as a Young Company Member of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and a Company Member of Playhouse on the Square (Memphis, TN). Additional regional theatre credits include: The Trip to Bountiful (reading-Jessie Mae) Peninsula Players, The Last Five Years (Cathy) Champ Auditorium; The Philadelphia Story (Tracy Lord), Of Mice and Men (Curly's Wife), Picnic (Millie), Peter Pan (Wendy), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change Playhouse on the Square; A Man of No Importance (Adele), Anton in Show Business (Holly), Charlotte’s Web (Charlotte), Honk! (Queenie/Grace/Dot) The Circuit Playhouse; Talking With... (Twirler) POTS @ TheWorks; Dead Man Walking (Victim) Cincinnati Opera, Arcadia (Thomasina), Twelfth Night (Olivia), As You Like It (Phebe), and Julius Caesar (Casca), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia) Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (Ensemble) Kitchen Theatre; and Othello (Desdemona) Expanded Arts NYC.
Comedy credits include The Second City (Chicago and Hollywood), LA Improv Comedy Fest, Upright Citizens Brigade, iO West, Funny Or Die, College Humor, Hollywood Improv, and Comedy Central Stage. She studied Improv with The Groundlings in Los Angeles.
Ingersoll is the recipient of an Emmy Award nomination, a Jeff Award, three Jeff Award nominations, Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in Theatre, a Broadway World Award, four Ostrander Awards, two Ostrander Award nominations, a St Louis Theater Circle Award nomination, and Year's Best honors from Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Chicago Sun-Times.
She is a graduate of Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), accepted in Opera Performance and earning a BFA in Acting. Educational credits at Ithaca College include: Into The Woods (Little Red), The Imaginary Invalid (Toinette), Sexual Perversity In Chicago (Joan), The Woods (Ruth), Dark Rapture (Julia), as well as staged readings of Saint Joan (Joan), Troilus & Cressida (Cressida), A New Brain (Waitress/Nurse), and Company (Joanne).
Early professional/community credits as a teen include The Crucible (Mary Warren) Indianapolis Civic Theatre; West Side Story in Concert (Maria) Carmel Symphony Orchestra; Grapes Of Wrath (Aggie) Edyvean Repertory Theatre; The Comedy Of Errors (Luciana) Indianapolis Shakespeare in the Park; Totty: Young Eleanor Roosevelt (reading- Eleanor Roosevelt), and And The Tide Shall Cover The Earth (reading-Geneva) Indiana Repertory Theatre.
She attended performing arts junior and high schools where she majored in Theatre and minored in Opera performance. She also trained at the Madame Walker Theatre Youth in Arts Program and the prestigious Northwestern University National High Institute Cherub Program in Theatre. As a teenager Angela was awarded Honorable Mentions in Theatre and Music from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, a Prelude Award for Acting, and was a finalist in the National Shakespeare Competition. Early educational credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia) at Northwestern University's NHSI Cherub Camp, as well as The Music Man (Marian), Pippin (Catharine), and Romeo and Juliet (Nurse) at Broad Ripple High School Center Center for the Performing Arts.
Angela enjoys frequenting sporting events. She's appeared as a National Anthem Soloist since she was a teen, singing for the NBA, NCAA, and Arlington International Racecourse. As a youth she danced in Disney's 500 Festival Parade as well as the Opening Ceremony of the Pan American Games at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Little-Girl-Blue-collar beginnings
Angie always sang. Her Fairy Godmother, cleverly disguised as a public school music teacher, encouraged her. Angie began performing at the age of five. As it was the early 1980s, naturally her first solo was "Tomorrow" from Annie. She fell in love with audiences before she was old enough to know how to fear them. She trusted the laughter, the applause, and the silence. She was a moth, and knew how to find the light.
Angie had a perm and a dream. Hidden in the dark auditorium of a shopping mall cineplex, insulated from the roar of the nearby Indianapolis Motor Speedway, she knew exactly what she wanted to be. In both of her favorite films, she marveled at the larger than life image of a little red-headed orphan, dog in tow, searching for home. She recognized that whether the heroine sang of rainbows or of tomorrows, the message was the same. Angie's heart whispered, “I can do that.” A starlet was born, full of courage and determined to help people laugh and cry their asses off so they would cease to be so pissed off all the time.
Audiences exclaimed then as they do now, “How did that big voice come out of that little body?!” Pink plastic boom box at her side, Angie practiced with devotion. She rehearsed her dream concert, which she hoped would be broadcast to the world from the moon. From where she sat, that couldn't have been much farther away than Carnegie Hall... the storied room where Judy sang her favorite record.
Her enthusiasm for emulating the stylings of entertainment greats was ceaseless. Armed with dozens of cable channels and a powerful VCR, she built an arsenal of comic gold. Relatives and neighbor kids alike were accosted with re-enactments of SNL sketches, Madonna videos, and Pee-wee’s Playhouse gags. In clear violation of Bedtime, she regularly stayed up late to rendezvous with Mr. Johnny Carson, even though her tiny black and white TV obscured the brilliance of his rainbow curtain. She sought out all of Natalie Wood's movies, even the bad ones. She recited from photographic memory not only Miss Scarlet's lines, but every character's lines in Clue. Her first crush was Bill Murray. The second was reserved for Sidney Poitier. She was, in unequivocal terms, a dork.
Her young hopes were housed in a prematurely blossoming body. “I’m not sure if you’re a girl trapped in a woman’s body or a woman trapped in a girl’s body,” puzzled one theatre director. In her quest for mature self expression, Angie was often sent home from elementary school for not wearing enough clothing. It wasn’t a big deal to run home and quick-change her costume because she was a walker. She didn’t ride a bus until later, when attending Performing Arts Programs for junior high and high school. In fact, she graduated from David Letterman's alma mater. Like her famous fellow alumnus, Angela eventually fled her Indiana home for New York, attending Ithaca College to study Opera and Acting. She was grateful for the all-around education from the GORGE-OUS Finger Lakes town, and to be the first in her family to graduate college.
So began the journey of the little ingenue that could.