Tristan Jepson

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

He 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 committed suicide by drug overdose, aged 26.[2][3]

The Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation, named in his honor, is an organisation which works to foreground issues of mental illness in the law, including law students, graduates, practicing lawyers, and judges.[4] The foundation changed its name to Minds Count in 2018.[5]

In 2006 the University of New South Wales inaugurated an annual Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture.[6][7]

References
  1. Biography for Tristan Jepson on IMDB
  2. Mascharenas, Alan (7 September 2006). "Down by law, with the black dog". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. Legge, Kate (26 February 2011). "It's time to talk". The Australian. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  4. 'Lawyers and Depression – Part 1'. Life Matters, Radio National. 27 November 2007
  5. Press Release, 10 July 2018. Accessed 24 June 2019.
  6. "Down by law, with the black dog". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 September 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  7. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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