ALEX FERGUSON is a national award-winning writer with Silver and Gold Awards from the Writers’ Guild. His comic radio series, MY UNCLE FREDDIE, ran for six years on Radio Four.
He worked for four years with Corin and Vanessa Redgrave’s Moving Theatre to write three successful plays. THE FLAG was performed at Battersea and CASEMENT at the Riverside. His adaptation of THE STARS LOOK DOWN won an award at a drama festival.
He has contributed to a number of television series, including Ruth Rendell, Wycliffe, Dream Team and built a successful reputation in radio and theatre drama.
He created and ran the youth theatre company, Bold As Brass, on Tyneside for ten years writing some thirty theatre pieces that climaxed in a wonderful run at the Jermyn Street Theatre with his DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
In 2016 he wrote the feature film, BLISS! that was been chosen for screening at four International Film Festivals in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. Tiring of chasing actors to perform, he sat down to write books and began to fill a shelf on Kindle.
In March 2018, Alex Ferguson was admitted to the Fellowship of the Customs House Theatre Trust for his services to the Arts.
In 2019 two of his plays were on stage with the Customs House & Northumbrian Touring Theatre,
Alex is presently writing a series of Uncle Freddie stories in book form. Three books are are available on Amazon, As an eternal optimist he is working with Brilliant Ideas to adapt MY UNCLE FREDDIE for television.