Michelle Brasier

Michelle Brasier is a Melbourne-based comedian, singer, writer and actor. She is known for her work with Aunty Donna, her live shows, and performing in comedy duo Double Denim with Laura Frew.

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

Career
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.

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

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). The two continued in 2018 in the Double Denim Adventure Show, about a failed cruise ship voyage, which won Best Newcomers at the Sydney Comedy Festival and Director's Choice at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF). She appeared on Aunty Donna's comedy album The Album, and joined the group on their Australian tour.

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

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

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

Her show Reform debuted in 2022 to critical acclaim, about her experience with an online scam.

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

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.

Personal life
Her partner Tim Lancaster is a musician who has performed in some of Brasier's shows. 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.