Tegan Higginbotham

Tegan Marie Higginbotham (born ) is an Australian comedian, writer, and actress.

Early life and education Higginbotham, was born in in Dandenong, Victoria. She attended Dandenong Primary School and Dandenong High School (since merged with Cleeland Secondary College).

Her first love was acting, until she discovered comedy in her late teens, and performed her first comedy gig at the age of 17.

Career Live performance Higginbotham has performed at every Melbourne International Comedy Festival since becoming a National Finalist at the festival's Class Clowns comedy competition in 2005.

She began her comedy career performing wild fast-paced sketch shows with fellow comedians Rob Lloyd and Adam McKenzie as the trio 'The Hounds', which later morphed into 'Watson', without Lloyd.

TV and radio In 2016, Higginbotham was a regular cast member for the Australian version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

Higginbotham co-hosted the controversial ABC2 pre-game, half-time and post-game coverages of the Liverpool F.C versus Sydney FC match with Julian Schiller and Steen Raskopoulos on 24 May 2017.

She joined Nicole Livingstone and Amberley Lobo as co-host and regular panellist on the one-hour live entertainment and sports comedy panel show called Sideliners which premiered on ABC TV on 30 June 2017.

In March 2024, Higginbotham joined Triple M's Marty Sheargold Show as executive producer, replacing Matt Thomson.

Writing Higginbotham contributes regularly as a sports columnist for The Age and writes a blog.

Awards Year Work Award Category Result 2012 Million Dollar Tegan Melbourne International Comedy Festival Best Newcomer 2012 Shakespeare Fight Club Melbourne International Comedy Festival Golden Gibbo Award (with ensemble 'Watson') 2014 Who's Afraid of the Dark? Melbourne International Comedy Festival Best Comedy Award (with ensemble 'Watson') 2015 Who's Afraid of the Dark? Melbourne International Comedy Festival Golden Gibbo Award (with ensemble 'Watson')

Community and charity work Higginbotham performed at the Heart of St Kilda concert in 2014 with comedians Julia Morris, Charlie Pickering, musical comedy trio Tripod, ventriloquist Dean Atkinson, Greg Champion of the Coodabeens, and comedy character Elliot Goblet, to raise funds for Sacred Heart Mission, which assists hundreds of people who are homeless or living in poverty to find shelter, food, care and support every day of the year.

Personal life Higginbotham loves sports and sci-fi. and describes herself as "a big nerd at heart, whose favourite things ever are Star Wars and Harry Potter."

Live comedy shows

Solo comedy shows 2012: Million Dollar Tegan 2013: Touched By Fev 2014: Game Changer 2016: The City of Love

Collaborative comedy shows 2006–2007: The Hound of the Baskervilles 2007: Every Film Ever Made 2008–2009: The Last Bucket of Water 2010: Robot V's World 2010: Jabba's Comedy Hutt 2011: The Terminativity 2011: Super Secret Awesome Show 2012: Shakespeare Fight Club 2014: The Wrestling 2015: Who's Afraid of the Dark? 2016: The Life Education Van for Adults! 2017: Go to Hell 2018: Watson World Tour

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2009 Perspective Darcy Short film 2013 Adoption Tilly Short film 2014 Dinner for Three Cass Short film 2014 The Heckler Laura Feature film 2015 Sweatshop Ashlee Simmons Short TV movie 2015 Holding the Man Gina Feature film 2015Oddball Zoe Feature film 2015 A Night of Horror: Volume 1 Maggie Anthology film 2018 For Your Sins Lucy Short film 2020 The Divorce Lawyer Short film 2023 Jones Family Christmas McKenzie TV movie

Television Year Title Role Notes 2007 Neighbours Francis Taylor 1 episode 2008 Studio A Comedian 1 episode 2009 Whatever Happened to That Guy? Tegan Season 1, 4 episodes 2009 City Homicide Jana Mellor Season 3, episode 14: "Mission Statement" 2011 The Bazura Project Barmaid / Profane Shopper Season 4, 2 episodes 2012 Rant Reporter 1 episode 2012 Aunty Donna's Rumpus Room Tammy Season 1, episode 2: "Chapel Street/Cresps/A Bad Date" 2013 Twentysomething Applicant 1 Season 2, episode 2: "Tricks of the Trade" 2013–2015 Have You Been Paying Attention? Panelist 4 episodes 2014 Back Seat Drivers Driver 1 episode 2014 This is Littleton Various characters Season 1, 4 episodes 2014 Fancy Boy Addiction Counsellor Season 1, episode 1: "My Weird Addiction" 2014 It's a Date Abby Season 2, episode 4: "How Much Research Should You Do Before Dating?" 2014 Upper Middle Bogan Jess Season 2, episode 8: "Jules in the Crown" 2014 The 2014 Antenna Awards Host 1 episode 2014 Live on Bowen Comedian 1 episode 2014 Spicks and Specks Panelist 2 episodes 2015 Community Kitchen Herself 2 episodes 2015 Comedy Up Late Comedian 1 episode 2015 About Tonight Host 1 episode 2015 How to be Funny Herself 1 episode 2016 Molly Petra Miniseries, 2 episodes 2016 Bounce Herself 2 episodes 2016–2018 Nowhere Boys: Two Moons Rising Quinn Banda Seasons 3–4, 5 episodes 2016–2017 Whose Line is it Anyway? Australia Herself 4 episodes 2017 Whovians Presenter / Panellist 9 episodes 2017 Liverpool FC versus Sydney FC Host 1 episode 2017 Sideliners Co-host / Regular panellist 7 episodes 2017 The Ex-PM Floor Manager Season 2, episode 3: "Image" 2018 Show Me the Movie! Herself 2 episodes 2019 Help – The Series Lucie Miniseries 2021 Dish Island Host

As writer Year Title Role Notes 2014 This is Littleton Writer Season 1, 4 episodes 2014 The 2014 Antenna Awards Writer 1 episode 2014 Dinner for Three Co-writer / Associate Producer Short film 2015 Little Lunch Writer 1 episode 2015 Open Slather Writer 9 episodes 2023 Jones Family Christmas Writer TV movie

Podcast series Year Title Role Notes 2016 Night Terrace Jillemina 1 episode: "Situational Awareness"