Name Tristan Jepson | Role TV Writer | |
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Died October 28, 2004, Sydney, Australia Education University of New South Wales | ||
Tristan Jepson (1978 – 28 October 2004) was an Australian law graduate and writer.
Biography
Jepson was educated at Trinity Grammar School and the University of New South Wales. While still an undergraduate law student, he began to write and perform comedy as director of the University of New South Wales' Law Revue. On graduation in 2003, he joined the cast of the AFI Award nominated sketch comedy TV programme Big Bite, where he was perhaps best known for impersonations of Tom Gleisner in parody sketches of The Panel.
Diagnosed with clinical depression in 1998, Jepson suffered bouts during his university years and committed suicide by drug overdose, aged 26.
The Tristan Jepson Memorial Fund, named in his honor, is an organisation which works to foreground issues of mental illness in the law, including law students, graduates, practising lawyers, and judges. In 2006 the University of New South Wales inaugurated an annual Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture.