Michelle Brasier

Brasier grew up in Wagga Wagga.[2] In 2007, she moved to Melbourne to study musical theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts.[2][3] She crossed paths with Laura Frew in 2013 at a murder mystery party.[4]

In 2014, Brasier appeared on stage with Frew as part of comedy troupe Backwards Anorak in a Game of Thrones spoof named Winter Is Coming, performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.[4]

Brasier's first solo comedy show, Space Tortoise, came to stage in 2016.[5]

She first performed in the comedy duo Double Denim with Frew in a self titled show in 2017 and were nominated for a Golden Gibbo at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF).[4][6] The two continued in 2018 in the Double Denim Adventure Show, about a failed cruise ship voyage,[4] which won Best Newcomers at the Sydney Comedy Festival and Director's Choice at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF).[2] She appeared on Aunty Donna's comedy album The Album, and joined the group on their Australian tour.[7]

2019 brought Double Denim's third show, A Very Fancy Dinner Party, which premiered at the Adelaide Fringe.[4]

In 2020, Brasier appeared in Aunty Donna's Big Ol' House of Fun as a sports doctor.[8] As part of Double Denim, she won the 2020 MICF Moosehead Award.[2]

In 2021, Brasier debuted Average Bear, a personal show on the impact of cancer on her family.[2] The show won Sydney Comedy Festival's Director's Choice award,[9] was performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2022,[10] was nominated for the MICF award for Most Outstanding Show,[2] and aired as a special on Paramount+ as part of the Malthouse Stand Up Specials.[11]

Her show Reform debuted in 2022 to critical acclaim, about her experience with an online scam.[12][13][14]

In 2023, she appeared in Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe.[13] Her next solo show, Legacy, began the same year and is running for the duration of the MICF.[13] She made news after her luggage was lost on a KLM flight despite her locating the luggage using an AirTag.[15][16]

Brasier has also worked on and starred in Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell, Utopia, Get Krack!n, Drunk History Australia and How to Stay Married.[13]

Her partner Tim Lancaster is a musician who has performed in some of Brasier's shows.[14] She deals with a high risk of developing bowel, stomach, pancreatic, or ovarian cancer due to an hereditary illness, to which she lost both her father and brother in 2006.[17][18]