Medical Assistance for Angela Ingersoll

My name is Brian and I am fundraising for medical assistance for Angela Ingersoll.

Angela is an award-winning performer and has brought such joy to so many through her concerts and in stage plays. Now she is having a difficult time. She was recently performing her Emmy-Nominated concert, Get Happy, Angela Ingersoll sings Judy Garland, on the road and midway through the run, after an evening performance, she tripped over a curb in the parking lot on the way to her hotel. She could not get her arms out fast enough to catch herself and landed directly on her face on the concrete. She spent the night in the hospital, lost both of her front teeth, broken off both horizontally and vertically. Her upper lip was badly lacerated and required stitches both inside and outside. She is still in moderate pain.

Upon returning home to Chicago, her husband Michael took her to an emergency dentist, where they thought they were going to perform two root canals to begin the process of addressing her teeth. When they took x-rays, they found that not only were the teeth unlikely to be saved, but that she had also fractured her upper jaw. The swelling and tissue damage meant that the root canals could not be done until her broken jaw stabilized. They then went to another floor of the building where she underwent a maxillofacial procedure to wire her remaining four front teeth and the remainder of the front two teeth together, so that the bone in the upper jaw could begin to heal. That’s a 6-8 week process.

This is to fund the required emergency room C-scan, the doctors and dentists, as well as the endodontist to rebuild her teeth and upper jaw. The Ingersoll’s insurance company will not cover the costs for these procedures. They are also dealing with the loss of revenue for up to 8 weeks of cancelled performances and down time.

The pandemic caused many artists like them to leave the business and totally change their careers. Angela and her husband Michael persevered through those difficult times sticking together and executing their plan to remain entrepreneurs and employers of up to 80 musicians and singers per year. In 2023, the theatre and concert community in Chicago and in the United States is suffering from lack of attendance and major venues have had to cut back on the number of performances across the board. This has resulted in a loss of revenue generally for artists and for the Ingersoll’s as well.

Please help them through this difficult incident, as I will, to get back on their feet and begin to move forward again.