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Brendan Cowell

BRENDAN COWELL

  (1976 - )
Nationality:    Australian
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Literary Agent:    The Yellow Agency  

Brendan Cowell is an actor and writer. He won the prestigious Patrick White Playwrights' award for Bed in 2001, and his play aTM was presented by the 2002 Sydney Festival. In 2003 he won the Griffin award for Rabbit, which the company subsequently produced. Later that year, Frantic assembly's production of the play toured the UK for ten weeks to rave reviews (London's Guardian called it desperately funny' and awarded it four out of five stars). Morph and his adaptation of Seneca's Thyestes were both produced by Sydney Theatre Company's Blueprints program. Cowell is currently working on a number of new commissions for Theatre, film and television and is Wharf 2Loud Director at Sydney Theatre Company.

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below is a list of Brendan Cowell's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         967 Tuna         Already Elsewhere         Atm         Bed         Happy New         Love Is Pain         Men         Morph         Rabbit         Ruben Guthrie         Self Esteem         Walk Don't Run

967 Tuna

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the Production Company presents the Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back!, A program of new works by Australian playwrights. the following description is from the show's press release: "Twelve Acclaimed Australian playwrights create pieces based on their perceptions of the United States. the Australia Project II: Australia Strikes Back! includes new plays from some of Australia's most celebrated playwrights. the Production Company's work promotes And deepens cultural exchange between the United States And Australia And encourages Artists to explore the relationship between the two countries."
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Already Elsewhere

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Sydney Festival    2004

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Force Majeure

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Atm

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Sydney Festival    2002

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Bed

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Phil is a guy you'll love to hate. . . but he might just charm your pants off. Literally. Spend an evening with Phil and see his darkly comic misadventures in Bed. From schoolboy dalliances and college trysts to marital failure and home-bound houseboys, Phil's relationship roller coaster will entertain, appall, and maybe even shock you with a hint of the familiar.
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comedy drama 50 min. - - Gay, full length

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Happy New

Happy New
When they were younger two brothers were locked up for months in a chicken coup by their mother. Now agoraphobic and living together in a tiny flat they are slowly reverting to chicken behaviour. they are "discovered" by a television journalist and become tv celebrities

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1st Produced:
Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney    2001

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Playdead Press   978-0957607798

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comedy

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Love Is Pain

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Wharf Two Theatre, Sydney    2002

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Men

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Old Fitzroy Theatre, Sydney    2000

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Morph

Morph
Looking at the intertwined lives of a young couple, Morph explores the shifting dynamics of fear and desire. Be is damaged goods. Bullish. Solitary. a one-time roughneck from the Manila oil-fields. Grace is a swan. Supple. Dedicated. a dancer at the very height of her powers. a strange misalliance is in motion. and as the world outside continues to advance at breakneck speed, can Be and Grace rebuild their shattered defences in time to protect themselves from each other?

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Wharf Two Theatre, Sydney    2003

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Currency Press, Australia >>>    978-0868197432

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Play/Drama

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Rabbit

Rabbit
Talented but extremely 'wasted' MC, Spin, is in dire need of a fix. It's time to meet the parents. Girlfriend, Madeline Cave, always trying to prove something to her neglectful father, plans to drop out of law school and become a rap artist. However Paul Cave, has his own bombshell to drop, his wife Kate has a live rabbit to cook and time is running out for all of them. In this darkest of black comedies, Frantic tackles the dysfunctional family and brings it to its knees.

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Oberon, London,    978-1840023947

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Black Comedy Comedy

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Ruben Guthrie

Ruben Guthrie
Ruben Guthrie is on fire. He's 29, he's the Creative Director of a cutting-edge advertising agency, he's engaged to a Czech supermodel and Sydney is his oyster. He pours himself a drink to celebrate, a drink to work, a drink to sleep and one spectacular night he drinks so much he thinks he can fly. Ruben Guthrie is Brendan Cowell's brutally honest comedy about spiralling high, crashing hard and being taken to aa by your mum.

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Play of the Year (Time Out Sydney); Shortlisted for the 2008 Sydney theatre Award for Best New Australian Work; Shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards 2008

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Comedy

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Self Esteem

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the near future. the Chad Corporation have succeeded in cloning. the clone is a motivating young man with a big toothy grin. every household is given a "Chad" . In one household Chad gets the Mother on to a strict diet and exercise regime and the Father to improve the profitability of his pest control business. the son transforms from a slob into a gay porn icon. the daughter wants to have "Chad's" child but she has to vie with her brother for his attention.

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Walk Don't Run

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