Retired from acting, she now teaches and produces creativity and
imagination building materials for children.
Co-founder of Imaginazium, LLC.
Teaching and operating a for-children company called
Imaginazium. (June 2005)
Leah Ayres and her husband, Bruce Kalish, have a son, Mack Kalish (Mackenzie Austin Kalish), who was born on June 21, 1993. Bruce Kalish is a writer and producer, and the child's paternal grandparents are the writers Austin Kalish and Irma Kalish.
Appeared in some of the late 1970s, early 1980s Darci Doll catalogs
wearing real life versions of the doll's fashions.
She grew up in the Roland Park section of Baltimore.
Is a graduate of the elite Roland Park Country (school).
Received her M.A. from Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California, in
1996.
Maternal grandfather was David Van Alstyne Jr., a Republican politician who served as a New Jersey State Senator from Bergen County from 1943 to 1953, and a member of New Jersey General Assembly's Bergen County from 1940 until 1941.