Mark Grist

He’s “the English teacher you wish you had” (Fest Magazine) whose rap battle with a teenage MC clocked up millions of hits on YouTube. In his new one-man show, Rogue Teacher, Grist traces his amazing journey from over-enthusiastic English teacher to worldwide rap battle sensation.

“And most of it’s in verse: emphatic, playful, insistently rhyming verse of the type his MA tutor censured, but which is precision-built to reach out to a live audience,” says The Guardian. “His poems are fluid, clever and funny, his delivery crisp and his self-deprecating persona endearing” (Fest Magazine).