Imogen Anne Lloyd Webber (born 31 March 1977) is a British broadcaster, author and marketing & communications executive. She is the daughter of composer
Andrew Lloyd Webber and his first wife, Sarah Hugill.
Biography
Lloyd Webber was educated at
Queen's College, London and
Girton College, Cambridge
Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college in Cambridge. In 1948, it was granted full college statu ...
, where she studied Modern Political History, specialising in the role of worldwide
intelligence agencies
An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, public safety, and foreign policy objectives.
Means of informatio ...
and their impact.
Lloyd Webber now lives in New York City where she is a contributor for Broadway.com, ''
People Nows Royal Correspondent and a Senior Vice President at
Concord
Concord may refer to:
Meaning "agreement"
* Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony)
* Harmony, in music
* Agreement (linguistics), a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of other ...
. She was brought in by
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
as a contributor initially to cover the 2018
wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held on Saturday 19 May 2018 in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom. The groom is a member of the British royal family; the bride is American and previously worked as an ...
on multiple platforms and shows including for the full six-hour live broadcast on ''
Good Morning America''. She hosted Tony Awards specials for Broadway.com/CBS in 2016, 2017 (winning a New York Emmy) and 2018.
Formerly a contributor for
MSNBC
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, she was regularly seen on the
Fox News Channel and
Fox Business Network
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as a political commentator with a global perspective – and "Liberal" slant on topics as wide-ranging from
Afghanistan
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to entertainment.
She was a frequent guest on the Fox News late-night panel show ''
Red Eye'' and a panellist, along with Imus' longtime producer
Bernard McGuirk, on the ''
Imus in the Morning
''Imus in the Morning'' was a long-running radio show hosted by Don Imus. The show originated on June 2, 1968, on various stations in the Western United States and Cleveland, Ohio before settling on WNBC radio in New York City in 1971. In Octobe ...
'' radio show, which aired on
77WABC in New York City, and was syndicated around the nation.
She produced ''Touched... For The Very First Time'', written by Zoe Lewis, directed by Douglas Rintoul and starring
Sadie Frost
Sadie Liza Frost (née Vaughan; born 19 June 1965) is an English actress, producer and fashion designer, who ran fashion label Frost French (until its closure in 2011) and a film production company (Blonde to Black Pictures).
Early life
Frost ...
at the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End in 2009.
In January 2018, Lloyd Webber, along with
Sierra Boggess, participated in a gala performance for the 30th anniversary of ''
The Phantom of the Opera
''The Phantom of the Opera'' (french: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910, and was released in volume form in late March 1910 by Pier ...
'' on Broadway, and publicly interviewed her father for the first time.
In April 2020, she was promoted to Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications at
Concord Theatricals.
Bibliography
Her non-fiction book, ''The Single Girl's Guide'', was published by
Summersdale
Summersdale Publishers Ltd (often simply Summersdale) is an English independent publishing firm of non-fiction. The company is based in Chichester, West Sussex.
Founded in 1990 by Stewart Ferris and Alastair Williams, it has since published ov ...
in the United Kingdom in April 2007, and as ''The Single Girl's Survival Guide'' by
Skyhorse Publishing
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. is an American independent book publishing company founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City, with a satellite office in Brattleboro, Vermont.
History
The current president and publisher is founder Tony Ly ...
in the US in October 2007 and again in February 2011. She later adapted it into a screenplay for film producer
Lloyd Levin.
''The Twitter Diaries: 2 Cities, 1 Friendship, 140 Characters,'' a fiction
e-book
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that Lloyd Webber co-wrote with
Georgie Thompson
Georgina Jane Ainslie, Lady Ainslie (born 25 September 1977), better known as Georgie Thompson, is an English television presenter.
Education
Thompson was educated at Queenswood School, an independent boarding school for girls near Hatfield ...
, debuted on 21 May 2012. It is written as a conversation on Twitter, using the 140-character limitation. The book was inspired by Thompson and Lloyd Webber meeting at a party hosted by
Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (; né O'Meara; born 30 March 1965) is a British broadcaster, journalist, writer, and television personality. He began his Fleet Street career in 1988 at ''The Sun (United Kingdom), The Sun''. In 1994, aged 29, he was ...
and developing a friendship over Twitter. It was later released in paperback form in the UK and North America.
In June 2016
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under si ...
published Lloyd Webber's ''The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime''.
References
External links
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Living the Technicolour Dream
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Living people
People educated at Queen's College, London
Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge
English non-fiction writers
English people of Scottish descent
English theatre managers and producers
Women theatre managers and producers
British expatriates in the United States
1977 births
English women non-fiction writers
21st-century English writers
21st-century English women writers
Lloyd Webber family
Daughters of life peers