Alex Ferguson

ALEX FERGUSON is a national award-winning writer with Silver and Gold Awards from the Writers’ Guild. His first professional success was at the age of four years six months when he wrote Aesop’s Fables by Alex Ferguson. He rewrote the endings he didn’t like. He sold one copy to his sister for sixpence, but W. H. Smith said they were over stocked. A little later he became the B.B.C.’s Young Poet of the Year. He worked with Corin and Vanessa Redgrave for four years to write three successful plays for Moving Theatre. THE FLAG was performed at Battersea & CASEMENT at the Riverside. He wrote Corin Redgrave’s only radio play, WALPAMUR & CARDBOARD.

He has contributed to a number of television series and built a successful reputation in radio and theatre drama. His comic radio series ran for six years on Radio Four. The Guardian was kind enough to say .... In all his work there’s a special gift for making the past sound as if it’s a shared dream, the kind that makes you wake up smiling. He employed Jamie Bell before he became famous. In 1997 with Big Mama he won the GUINNESS National Award for Pub Theatre. In 1998 he gained a nomination for a Sony Award for Creative Radio Writing and in 2004 was nominated for a regional Royal Television Society Award for the short film LADS.

He created and ran the youth theatre company, Bold As Brass, on Tyneside for ten years, writing over thirty plays & pieces for the Company, climaxing in a wonderful run at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London with DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? In 2016 he wrote the feature film, BLISS! which was chosen for screening at four International Film Festivals in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.

The Summer of 2018 he spent at the Customs House Theatre, South Shields, with his play, MY UNCLE FREDDIE. 2019 will see his adaptation of THE STARS LOOK DOWN played at the Northumberland Touring Theatre, Alnwick. Presently he is writing the first TV series of MY UNCLE FREDDIE. Apart from being a creditable writer & professional escapologist, he is the eternal optimist. Tiring of chasing actors to speak the words he has written, he sat down to write books and filled a shelf on Kindle.

If you can find your way past the numerous books written for a retired football manager, you might dip into any of the following in paperback. . . .

THE PINEAPPLE KING OF JARROW, UNCLE FREDDIE & THE PRINCE OF WALES THE JETHART HOUSE, VILLAGE LIFE, MAGGIE MAGEE & THE LAST MAGICIAN, PUTTING OUT THE LIGHTS, A MOST PECULIAR HOTEL, FIELDS OF STONE, THE TIME WALKERS, A SUMMER OF WICKEDNESS.