Alan Brough is a performer, writer and broadcaster best known as a team captain on ABC TV’s Spicks and Specks.
Alan has been a regular on ABC Local Radio with listeners hearing him on Sunday mornings on 774 ABC Melbourne and ABC Victoria.
Alan was born in New Zealand and has been performing as long as he can remember. After various jobs, including library shelf stacker and orange juice squeezer, he took up acting full-time – becoming, for a time, New Zealand’s most famous transvestite.
Moving to Melbourne in 1995, Alan has worked in film, television, on stage and radio as a writer, director, actor and stand-up comedian. He has appeared in four feature films – The Craic, Siam Sunset (in which he had his one and only sex scene, unfortunately subsequently cut), The Nugget and Bad Eggs.
He has also guested on numerous TV shows, including Kath and Kim series 2 and 3 (including pashing Sharon next to the rubbish bins at the hospital) and written for The Games.
Alan has appeared as a senator, a nun, a military officer and a morbidly obese man on Channel 10’s hit comedy Thank God You’re Here, and played to over 70,000 people on a tour of the country in The Spicks and Spec-tacular, a live version of the ABC TV music game show Spicks and Specks, on which Alan can be seen every Wednesday night.
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