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Lynn Ferguson Tweddle (born 11 April 1965) is a Scottish writer, actress, and story coach. She is the younger sister of comedian Craig Ferguson and is known for voicing the character of Mac in the animated film, Chicken Run.

Early life

Ferguson grew up in Cumbernauld.^[1] She was the youngest of four and, like her sister, was Senior Prefect at Cumbernauld High School. She left school at the age of 18 and worked one season as a Bluecoat for Pontin's. She was then accepted at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she gained a BA in Dramatic Studies in 1986.

To work as a professional actress, however, she required an Equity union card which was at that point only available through paid work, so with fellow student she formed the Alexander Sisters – a comedy double act in honor of / parodying traditional Scottish variety styles typified by the Alexander Brothers. She was then side tracked into standup comedy doing her first paid gig on STV's Funny Farm. Before long she gained residence as compere at the Red Rose Comedy Club^[2] in Finsbury Park, London and continued to perform at numerous gigs throughout the UK.

Though a comic at night, Ferguson was also writing and presenting for BBC Scotland's children's program Megamag.^[3] She played a comedy character journalist Fergski who blundered through interviewing teen artists of that era – Ant & Dec, Aswad and Michelle Gayle. In one episode a spritely Phill Jupitus dresses as a security guard stops Fergski interviewing East 17 at the now defunct Top of the Pops set.

In 1995, she was commissioned to write an hour of standup comedy for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival but instead wrote her first play, Heart and Sole. This solo show won her the Stage Award for Acting Excellence and transferred to the Hampstead Theatre before being toured to Hong Kong and Melbourne.

She is married to Mark Tweddle, a civil servant and previously a management consultant. The couple have two sons {{as of|lc=yes|2008|7}}.^[4]^[5]

Career

Storytelling Coach

Lynn Ferguson co-founded YouTellYours.com ^[6] with her husband, Mark Tweddle, providing coaching in live performance storytelling in July 2015. The business has grown to include online tuition, a [https://www.youtube.com/c/YouTellYours YouTube channel] and now includes coaching sessions for business and in solo show construction.

Writer

Ferguson has written extensively for BBC Radio 4: three series (18 episodes) of the popular sitcom Millport, various pieces for Woman's Hour including a series of updated fairy tales called After Happy Ever alongside afternoon plays ("The Lie" "The Fly" "Kindling") and late night standup monologues.

For BBC Radio Scotland she wrote and presented a series exploring the minds of comedy writers, Laughed Off the Page,^[7] interviewing Colin Bostock-Smith,^[8] Galton and Simpson, Ian Pattison, and Dick Vosburgh.

For TV, she has written half-hour pilots for BBC Two and BBC Scotland and a half-hour short film for Channel 4.

A regular contributor to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, eight of her plays have been produced there and she has won a Fringe First Award from The Scotsman. In 2016, she returned to Edinburgh, writing the play "Careful" for Horse McDonald, and again in 2017, co-writing "Life, Death and Duran Duran" with one of her story clients, Sam Shaber.

November 2017, she premiered her new play The Weir Sisters in Glasgow at Oran Mor Play,pie and a pint

As well as her performance pieces, she has written various columns for publications including The Scotsman, The Stage, Time Out, The Big Issue and The Herald.

She wrote for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, her brother's American chat program, from October 2008 till June 2011 and was a writing consultant for Pixar on Brave.

Actress

As well as winning the Stage Award for Acting Excellence she has been nominated twice. In addition to her own written works, she has performed in theatre extensively.

Ferguson toured with the Royal National Theatre in the lead part, Shen Te/ Shui Ta, of the Bertolt Brecht play The Good Person of Szechwan and played the lead in the Traverse Theatre production of Douglas Maxwell's Melody.

Vocally, she has numerous credits for radio works and notably played Mac in the film Chicken Run.

For TV she performed regular parts for the Channel 4, comedy drama No Angels and Ben Elton's BBC1 sitcom Blessed, as well as appearances in The Catherine Tate Show and The Bill amongst others.

Recently{{when|date=May 2018}}, she is to be seen as Greta the eccentric German creator of Farnhaan in the SafeAuto Insurance campaign.

As herself

Ferguson has presented a number of programs including, Doing the Festival for STV and XS, an arts program for the BBC.

In addition, she has been a contestant on the challenging BBC Radio 4 panel game shows Just a Minute, Loose Ends and Banter.

In April and September 2008, she made guest appearances on her brother Craig's talk show, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Director / Producer

On 1 March 2012 Lynn started uploading videos to her TodayThis channel^[9] on YouTube. This video project is called ThisDayToday ^[10] and is loosely based on Google Doodle, creating short comedy videos based on today in history. On 28 February 2013 Lynn and her husband had created a video for every day of the year.

References

1. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article516987.ece | location=London | work=The Times | first1=Alan | last1=Hamilton | first2=Sophie | last2=Kirkham | title=Too ugly to live the award-winning town begging to be put out of its misery on TV | date=21 February 2005}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/comedy/article-23432327-details/Stars+mourn+legendary+Red+Rose+Comedy+Club/article.do |title=Stars mourn legendary Red Rose Comedy Club |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117045433/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/comedy/article-23432327-details/Stars%2Bmourn%2Blegendary%2BRed%2BRose%2BComedy%2BClub/article.do |archivedate=17 January 2008 |df= }}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/aboutus/wirelesstoweb/history/ |title=The Wireless to the Web |date=17 October 2014 |work=BBC Scotland |accessdate=27 September 2015}}
4. ^{{cite news | url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotsmanmagazine/Side-by-side.4315763.jp | title=Side by side | newspaper=The Scotsman | date=26 July 2008 | first=Jackie | last=McGlone | accessdate=24 February 2011 }}
5. ^{{cite news | url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/millportis-set-for-a-place-in-the-sun-is-minuscule-millport-about-to-make-it-big-actress-lynn-ferguson-hopes-so-and-not-just-because-she-used-to-holiday-on-great-cumbrae-she-stars-in-a-new-tv-sitcom-that-starts-on-sunday-david-belcher-reports-1.146135 | title=Millportis set for a place in the sun. Is minuscule Millport about to make it big? Actress Lynn Ferguson hopes so, and not just because she used to holiday on Great Cumbrae. She stars in a new TV sitcom that starts on Sunday | first=David | last=Belcher | newspaper=The Herald | location=Glasgow | accessdate=24 February 2011 | date=27 June 2002}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.youtellyours.com|title=YouTellYours.com}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/l/la/laughed_off_the_page__radio_scotland_.html |title=Laughed Off The Page [Radio Scotland]| work=radiolistings.co.uk |accessdate=27 September 2015}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098248/|title=Colin Bostock-Smith|work=IMDb|accessdate=27 September 2015}}
9. ^{{cite av media |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayThis |title=This Day Today |work=YouTube |accessdate=27 September 2015}}
10. ^{{cite web |url=http://Thisdaytoday.com |title=ThisDayToday |work=ThisDayToday.com |accessdate=27 September 2015}}