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 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, interviewing Colin Bostock-Smith, Galton and Simpson, Ian Pattison, 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.
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 (Glasgow).
She wrote for The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, her brother's American chat programme, from October 2008 till June 2011 and was a writing consultant for Pixar on Brave (2012 film).
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