Steph Tisdell
comedian
Steph Tisdell is an Aboriginal Australian comedian, actor, writer, author and presenter.
Tisdell, a Yidinji woman, was born in Mount Isa and grew up in Brisbane, Queensland. After studying human rights law and journalism at university, Tisdell began a stand-up comedy career in 2014, winning the Deadly Funny Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in the same year. She went on to win the Pinder Prize for her show The Pyramid in 2019, and hosted the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala in 2022. As a presenter, she also co-hosted the NAIDOC Awards in 2024.
In 2021, Tisdell became an actor, appearing alongside Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths in Total Control, an ABC political drama series. She has also appeared in the Prime Video apocalypse comedy series Class of '07, the Stan comedy drama series Bump, and the Netflix rom-com film Love Is in the Air. Tisdell became a published author in 2024, releasing a young adult novel titled The Skin I'm In, and was a contestant on The Amazing Race Australia 9 in 2025.
Early life
Tisdell was born in the early 1990s in Mount Isa, an outback town in Northwest Queensland. Her mother Wendy, a Yidinji woman, and father Mark, a white Australian, had started a business together in Mount Isa in the 1980s.
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