Angela Webber Angela Webber i(A145555 works by)
Born: Established: 2 Dec 1954 ; Died: Ceased: 10 Mar 2007 Sydney, New South Wales,
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Author, producer, and television script-writer.

Growing up in West Ryde, Sydney, Webber (whose father was head of light entertainment for ABC Radio and whose mother was a journalist) attended Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC), where her schoolmates included fellow script-writer Johanna Pigott. After high school, she studied architecture.

In 1981, Webber joined ABC Radio's Triple J as part of comedy team 'The J-Team' (which included, among others, Lance Curtis): through this program, Webber developed a comedy alter-ego ('Lillian Pascoe') who appeared in numerous guest appearances on radio and television.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she wrote material for television comedy programs, including The Gerry Connolly Show (1988), Cappuccino (1989), and Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (1990).

In the 1990s, she segued into serial television, via the animated children's program Petals (1998), about a group of not-quite-fairies who live among the flowers of a deserted garden. She followed this with scripts for Driven Crazy (1998) and Bad Cop, Bad Cop (2002), and material for children's entertainment program Hi-5 (2003). She also wrote the screenplay for telemovie The Adventures of Charlotte and Henry, an animated film co-written with Tammy Brunstock, Lisa Kitching, and Jan Stradling, which was produced in 2008, after Webber's death.

Webber's most successful program was her final one: Mortified (2006-2007), which explored the embarrassment children feel at their parents' antics, by focusing on young protagonist Taylor Fry. The program won or was nominated for a number of awards, including an AFI Award nomination for Best Screenplay in Television for Webber's script for episode 1.

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Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Mortified ( dir. Pino Amenta et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Children's Television Foundation , 2006-2007 Z1844380 2006-2007 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy

Mortified follows the trevails of eleven-year-old Taylor Fry, as she copes with the general embarrassment of having parents, as well as being annoyed by her sister, jealous of her neighbour, and completely oblivious to her best friend's crush on her. The program inserts some fantasy elements into the otherwise straight comedy-drama by having Taylor speak directly to the camera, using elaborate fantasy sequences to explore her daydreams, and showing her over-active imagination as bringing seemingly inanimate objects to life.

Mortified was the last major work of television producer and screenwriter Angela Webber before her early death in 2007.

2006 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Screenplay in Television For episode 1
form y separately published work icon Mortified ( dir. Pino Amenta et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Children's Television Foundation , 2006-2007 Z1844380 2006-2007 series - publisher film/TV children's fantasy

Mortified follows the trevails of eleven-year-old Taylor Fry, as she copes with the general embarrassment of having parents, as well as being annoyed by her sister, jealous of her neighbour, and completely oblivious to her best friend's crush on her. The program inserts some fantasy elements into the otherwise straight comedy-drama by having Taylor speak directly to the camera, using elaborate fantasy sequences to explore her daydreams, and showing her over-active imagination as bringing seemingly inanimate objects to life.

Mortified was the last major work of television producer and screenwriter Angela Webber before her early death in 2007.

2006 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Screenplay in Television For episode 1
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