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Lynn Ferguson

Scottish writer / performer Lynn Ferguson is a self-confessed entertainment mongrel.

After gaining her Bachelor’s degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Lynn performed in all manner of places.
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After gaining her Bachelor’s degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Lynn performed in all manner of places. From hosting her own stand-up comedy club in London, playing generally slightly psychopathic characters on TV, to the being lead in a Brecht’s “Good Woman of Setzuan” at the Royal National Theatre, picking up a Stage Award for acting and two further nomination, and a Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival along the way.

As a writer, she’s constructed theatre pieces, several solo shows, the odd documentary, and three series of her own sitcom for the BBC Radio 4, and several afternoon plays. Moving to LA in 2008, with her husband and two sons, she was a staff writer on Peabody Winning, The Late Late Show and a script consultant with Pixar for the Oscar Winning Movie, Brave. She has also regularly hosted and told stories for The Moth throughout the US and helped take this successful NPR broadcast show to the UK and Ireland. Her story, “Before Fergus” is included in The Moth’s latest New York Times bestseller, “Occasional Magic”.

Though this makes her sound mightily impressive, Lynn contents herself in the knowledge that it’s likely she will always be best known as the voice of a plasticine chicken (Mac) in the movie Chicken Run.

Film

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Voice of Mac
Aardman/Dreamworks2023
Brave
Script Consultant
Walt Disney Studios2010 — 2011
Chicken Run
Voice of Mac
Aardman/Dreamworks 2000
Honest
Loretta
Honest productions with Dave Stewart2000

Television

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Writer
Worldwide Pants Incorporation/CBS2009 — 2011
Catherine Tate Show
Scottish neighbour
BBC 1/Tiger Aspect Productions2007
Blessed (4 eps)
Actor
BBC1/Phil Macintyre TV2005
No Angels
Stella
World Productions/Channel 42004 — 2006
The Bill (3 eps)
Brenda Kelman
ITV/TalkbackThames2004 — 2005
Heart And Sole
Carol / Elaine
Director- Morag Mckinnon. Producer- Claudia Lloyd1999
Heart and Sole
Writer
Channel 41996
Byker Grove
Actor
ITV1989

Awards

The Stage Acting Award
Winner
Heart and Sole1995

Radio

Split the Atom
Writer
BBC Radio 42009
The Fly
Writer
BBC Radio 42008
Radio 2’s Christmas Tale
Writer
BBC Radio 22007
Happy Families
Writer
BBC Radio 42005
After Happy Ever
Writer
BBC Radio 42004
Kindling
Writer
BBC Radio 42003
Aria
Writer
BBC Radio 42001
Millport Series 1,2 & 3
Writer/Performer
BBC Radio 4 2000 — 2002
Hey Hey We’re The Monks (pilot)
Actor
BBC/BBC Radio 4 Extra2000

Theatre and Live Performance

Storyland - Tour Show
Performer
Scotland2023
Storyland - Solo Show
Performer
Edinburgh Fringe Festival2022 — 2023
Before Fergus (and various)
Host/Writer
The Moth, US/UK2021
TURNS OF THE TIDE - A Play, A Pie and A Pint
Writer
Oran Mor, Glasgow.2018
Life Death and Duran Duran (co written with Sam Shaber)
Writer
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh, Hollywood festival. The Tank, NYC2017
THE WEIR SISTERS - A Play, A Pie and A Pint
Writer
Oran Mor, Glasgow.2017
Careful
Writer
Gilded Balloon productions, followed by Scottish tour2016
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dr Watson
Dezart Performs in Palm Springs 2014
The Plan - Solo Show
Writer/Performer
Gilded Balloon prods -Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 2008
Melody
Melody
by Douglas Maxwell, Traverse 2006
Biographies in a bag
Writer/Performer
(3 x 30 min dramas)2004
The Good Woman Of Sezuan
Shen Te / Shui Ta
National Theatre 2001
Mental (co written with Stephen Powell)
Writer
Winner Fringe First award 20012001
Kindling
Writer
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2000. Nominated Stage Award for Acting Excellence2000
Frank
Writer (based on an idea by John Connor)
Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe Festival1998
Heart and Sole - Solo Show
Writer/Performer
Hampstead Theatre/Melbourne/Hong Kong/The Sidewalk, Burbank1995 — 2018

Podcast and Online Content

My Index To Sex
Host
2024

News

Podcasts

Ferguson Harrington Hawkes
An irreverent British-American cocktail of people, their stories and the music that moves us all.

Podcast Guest Appearances

The Moth Storytellers