Nathan Filer is a Bristol-based poet. His poetry short, Oedipus, won the BBC Best New Film Maker Award (2005) and received international acclaim. He is currently producing more short films and creating a new live show that will start touring at the end of the year. His comedic scribblings have featured on television, radio, post-it notes and at festivals and theatres across the UK.
"If the devil has all the best poems as well as tunes then Nathan Filer must have signed a Faustian pact." Elvis McGonagall - Apples & Snakes
From humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mister Gee honed his spoken word skills as the host of the renowned performance poetry club Brix-tongue and is now one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. He has performed at the New York Nuyorican Poets Café and the Black Lily night in Philadelphia (home to Jill Scott and the Roots), as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He runs workshops in schools and his album Poetry in the Key of Gee was released to critical acclaim.
Mister Gee is a co-winner of a Sony Gold Award for Radio as the resident poet on the Russell Brand Show on BBC Radio 2, and is the resident poet of the hit West-End musical Into The Hoods.