Tristan Jepson

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Tristan Jepson (born 1978, died 28 October 2004) was an Australian law graduate and writer.

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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.^[1]

Diagnosed with clinical depression in 1998, Jepson suffered bouts during his university years and commit suicide, aged 26.^[2]

The Tristan Jepson Memorial Fund, named in his honor, is an organization which works to foreground issues of mental illness across the legal profession.^[3] The University of New South Wales inaugurated an annual Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture in 2006.^[4]

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Name	Jepson, Tristan
Alternative names
Short description	Australian law graduate, writer and performer
Date of birth	1978
Place of birth
Date of death	28 October 2004
Place of death