Amanda Congdon

About Amanda Congdon

Amanda Congdon (born August 4,1981 in New York City) was the co-producer and host of a weekly vidcast for ABC. She has an independent videoblog, Starring Amanda Congdon. She is also co-president of Oxmour Entertainment along with Mario Librandi and was the host of Amanda Across America before it concluded. However, she is probably best known for hosting the daily news show Rocketboom (which Salon described as “one of the most popular video blogs on the Web.”), which she hosted and produced until 23 June 2006. She is still the co-owner (49%) of Rocketboom but a controversial dispute between her and the 51% shareholder Andrew Baron has resulted in her no longer hosting or producing the show. She also was the co-executive producer of JETSET (now EPIC-FU) for the first several episodes of that show.

Congdon was born and raised in Manhattan and graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University. Once she graduated she took a job at Saatchi & Saatchi, an advertising agency. She had leading roles in Waafrika (Red Room Theater) and Independence (Manhattan Theatre Source) and, during the second season, appeared as the coat check attendant on Rocco's The Restaurant. She has also appeared on CSI, The Chris Rock Show (on HBO), a Showtime pilot and Cake Presents. She can be seen in a Northstar music video which aired on MTV2, FUSE, and VH1's My Coolest Years.

Congdon began as Rocketboom's anchor with the show's 26 October 2004 debut and gave her own reports, often with a comedic slant.