Talisha 'Tee Cee' Cree 

Presenter | Filmmaker  | Writer

 

A Royal Television Society award winning, multi-hyphenate TV Creative - Talisha Cree known professionally as Tee Cee, is a Presenter, Filmmaker and Writer who made her writer-director debut on her short film 'Too Autistic for Black' commissioned by Warner Bros. Discovery, streaming on discovery+ in 2022. To date Tee Cee has won over 10 TV / digital commissions for her ideas and has worked in unscripted development across a plethora of award-winning broadcasters and independent production companies including Spun Gold TV, Atomized Studios, Full Fat TV, Tuesday's Child TV, BBC Studios - Digital Originals and BBC Three where she won x4 series / pilot commissions for both linear and digital TV shows, formats and content including winning BBC Three Birmingham's first in-house commission 'My Mate's A Bad Date' (Broadcasts International Hot Picks Formats 2020). Tee Cee won her first three commissions for BBC Three within 9 months of her first contract at the age of 25!

 

In 2024, Tee Cee made her BBC One presenting debut with 'Autism and Music' a VT she pitched and presented for BBC Morning Live. In 2023, Tee Cee landed her first ever press junket interviewing American musician Tobi Nwigwe for his debut acting role in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. In the same year, she returned to the stage to present at the 2023 Birmingham Festival, which she previously presented at in Summer 22 as part of the Commonwealth Games.

 

Previously, Tee Cee worked for the BAFTA award winning Children’s Channel CBBC as a TV Presenter and Digital Researcher - her work included presenting on three CBBC TV shows and winning x5 commissions for BBC Children’s YouTube originals (CBBC & CBeebies).

 

She formerly trained as a Broadcast Assistant, completing a NCTJ Level 3 Diploma in Journalism whilst working for the award winning radio station BBC West Midlands. At age 16 she became the self-published Author of her debut children's book titled ‘Snow Black, the Seven Rastas’ and Other Short Stories and was dubbed a ‘Black History Month Hero’ by Birmingham primary schools. In 2019, a second edition of the book was published receiving raving reviews from the late Benjamin Zephaniah and novelist Dorothy Koomson.

 

Off camera, Tee Cee can be found inspiring the next generation through professional speaking, digital originals content creation and empowering young women as she champions personal and professional development through her platform 'Not Your Average Girl', which supports young women in entry / early TV and digital.

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Tee Cee has become a face of the UK young entrepreneurship scene, who at 19-years-old had a stint in launching and running her own magazine, Skool Girl Online - Birmingham's only lifestyle magazine for young women (2013 - 2019) and aged 18 was the former Executive Producer and coordinator of Birmingham’s annual Celebrating Youth Excellence Awards (2012 - 2015), overseeing a team of young people under 25 to produce a glittering ceremony with over 300 delegates that recognised the outstanding achievements and positive contributions of young people, parents, educators and organisations in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Tee Cee has received several accolades for her work and contributions to her community.

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ACCOLADES:

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• Selected - GUAP Magazine The Blacklist (2024)

• Special jury mention - The Short Cinema Leicester International Film Festival (2024)

• Selected - BAFTA Breakthrough UK (2023)

• Birmingham Film Festival Nominee - The Audience Award (2023)

• Birmingham Film Festival Nominee - Best First Time Filmmaker (2023)

• Won - Royal Television Society Midlands, Diversity Champion Award (2023)

• Won - Birmingham Awards, Young Achiever of the Year (2023)

• Selected - Birmingham Film Festival (2023)

• Selected - Caribbean International Film Festival (2023)

• Edinburgh TV Festival - Ones To Watch (2023)

• National Diversity Awards Nominee - Positive Role-Model for Race, Religion & Faith (2023)

• Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women List - Women Beyond The Box (2023)

• New Voice Awards, Edinburgh TV Festival Nominee - Debut Director: Unscripted (2023)

• The TV Collective Nominee - Breakthrough Leader (2023)

• Royal Television Society Midlands Nominee - Breakthrough Off-screen Award (2020)

• Future Face of Arts & Culture Finalist - Future Faces Awards (2019)

• Brum 30 Under 30 (2019) 

• One of Grant Thornton's '100 Faces of a Vibrant Economy' (2016)

• Aspire Award – West Midlands Women of the Year Awards (2015)