Alex Y. Ferguson

Who is he?

ALEX FERGUSON is a national award-winning writer with Silver and Gold Awards from the Writers’ Guild.

BBC Young Poet of the Year 1951

C.P. Taylor Bursary 1994: Northern Playwrights Society.

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 Lane being applauded by Nicholas de Jongh: moving the production to the West End was a dream unfulfilled.

CASEMENT was performed most successfully at the Riverside; being awarded Play of the Month by Plays International.

Due to Corin’s untimely death the adaptation of THE STARS LOOK DOWN was never performed. The production was undertaken by the Northumbrian Touring Company most successfully; winning an award at the Touring Theatre Festival.

Alex Ferguson was a featured playwright for N.T.C. with MY UNCLE FREDDIE, THE OLD MAN & THE ANGEL, THE FLAG and THE STARS LOOK DOWN.

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 screened at four International Film Festivals in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.
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.

His legs failing him, Alex Ferguson retired to the keyboard and has written twenty books so far; the latest The Brankley Mound, being published in May 2025. His latest enterprise is donning the cloak & mask of the Invisible Geordie Writer.