Engalla was married to Star Trek VI supporting actor Douglas Engalla between 1980 and 1996. The couple has two children. Engalla also worked as casting assistant on the television series Dark Shadows (1991) and the comedy There Goes the Neighborhood (1992, with W. Morgan Sheppard), and as casting associate on the television thriller In the Arms of a Killer (1992, also along her husband) and the drama Where the Day Takes You (1992, with Robert Knepper and Christian Slater).