Ingrid Moon is a Senior Producer at Disney, currently creating the first-of-its-kind-in-the-world, bleeding-edge immersive learning environments and interactive content for a new but still top secret educational program. Prior to the Mouse, she worked in interactive production and online marketing projects for some unknown brands like ABC, Acura, PlayStation, Hasbro, Toyota, Reebok, Intel, Activision, Comcast, GM, Health Net, and the game publisher once known as Interplay.

But that's the boring stuff.

Ingrid has ascended to 14,000 feet, scaled 100-foot cliffs, survived treacherous class 4 rapids in a flimsy yellow raft, taught real wilderness outdoor survival to teenagers, rescued Girl Scouts from lethal hailstorms, and kayaked to gull-infested islands that smell like rotting aviaries. She has flown on more than 100 airplane trips, tried out for the U.S. Women's Olympic ice hockey team (twice, unsuccessfully, obviously), coached youth hockey and girls' soccer just to get out of work early, was a college champion softball long-ball hitter, and contacted ghosts in the basement of a church. She can't remember the last time her women's tournament team didn't win a championship, nor the last time she scored a goal. She has written about fifteen novels worth of crap and never published a damn thing.

As a terrible teenage actor, Ingrid performed in community and youth theater, speech and debate, mock trial, numerous awful amateur videos, and some radio. She studied modeling and acting at the Barbizon School (don't laugh). She has appeared on stage with Michael York, Robert Reed, Debby Boone, Dean Jones, and some other notable people who did all the work while she and her friends ran rampant on and off stage (and trying to find suitable working actors to date her mother, including Vaughn Armstrong, who was already happily married). She has also had the honor of being on the editing room floor with Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, and Liam Neeson - stints in a short-lived career as a film extra during which she discovered the other side of the camera (in particular assistant directing) while ditching school.

Yeah, those were the days. "I couldn't act then, and I still can't, but I sure have a damned good time pretending," she says. Ingrid gave up acting and went on to film school at Boston University to learn the craft of visual storytelling, to geek out with math and Physics students, and to perform séances over the graves of famous historical figures like Paul Revere. (He didn't answer, in case you were wondering.) After college she was an Assistant Director on several graduate student and independent/festival circuit films in Boston and Los Angeles.

For fun Ingrid sometimes volunteers to do voice acting (over-acting, mostly) for machinima, and helps aspiring filmmakers fine-tune their projects and learn the rules and language of filmmaking. She helps run Machiniplex.com, and founded the Machinima Roadshow which screens high quality machinima at events. She loves science fiction, Dr. Who, Star Wars, movies based on comic books, geeky gadgets, and is an obsessive compulsive Legomaniac. In her dreams, Ingrid really is Jess - kicking butt and not bothering to take names - and tries hard to be Mara Jade, though her red hair isn't natural and she has yet to find a magenta lightsaber that actually cuts off people's heads.

Ingrid has an MBA from Pepperdine University and lives in Los Angeles with her heavy metal loving, video game producing husband, their Guitar Hero jammin' rock star son, and their four Maine Coon cats who overeat, oversleep, and puke on the hardwood floors.