News about projects wiill be added to the site as they are confirmed.
On October 9 Brendan was announced as the recipient of The Philip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award for 2005. Cowell received a $10,000 Company B writer’s commission for its B Sharp Downstairs Theatre season.
Love My Way premiered on FOX8 on Monday 21st November. Brendan was part of the six-member writing team that scripted the mini-series, as well as starring as the character Tom.
A new play called Life Is a Nervous Party is in its final stages of completion by Brendan.
Brendan will be starring in a new drama series alongside Claudia Karvan (The Secret Life of Us) to be aired on Fox8 this year. Love My Way, the 10 part series in which he plays a fallen star chef who becomes a cook, began production in Sydney on June 21st.
Happy New, written by Brendan Cowell and directed by Ben Harkin, is at The Store Room, corner of Scotchmer Street and St George's Road, North Fitzroy (Victoria), from Friday until June 20. Book on 9486 5651. Read the article.
June 2004 - Under new management - "Brendan Cowell: Actor & Playwright" website now has a new webmistress. Please email Cat at whoszarockstar@hotmail.com with any comments, feedback or inquires regarding the site.
Brendan will appear on cinema screens in 2004 in Steve Pasvolsky's Deck Dogz. From an extras casting website:"Deck Dogz are three skaters who live in an outer western suburb of Sydney. One is a red-hot skater who is constantly haunted by the White Reaper of Death, and dreams of turning Pro. Another is Vietnamese, he's a virgin, thinks he's a homeboy, and has a predilection for pyromania. The third is a bad boy orphan with a short fuse and a head full of dreams, - on the edge of falling into a life of crime. Together, the Deck Dogz skate across Sydney to meet the legendary twelve times World Skating Champion, Tony Hawk. They want to compete in a skate-off and get sponsored by Hawk's company. During the trip they're chased by the law, their school, their parents, their demons, and a couple of low-life crims, all trying to stop them from realizing their burning ambition- to be taken seriously as skaters. The journey takes them from adolescence to manhood" According to Brendan's agent, Brendan is one of the "low-life crims", bad guy Kurt.
Brendan is currently working on a screenplay about "organized dating" for Icon Pictures. More details to follow as they develop! Brendan is also adapting Seneca's Thyestes for the STC.
Brendan appears in a remake of the 1979 television movie Salem's Lot, based on the Stephen King novel. The new production, filmed near Melbourne, co-stars Rob Lowe and Donald Sutherland. It will be aired on HBO/TNT in the United States in 2004. Channel Nine is negotiating for the rights to air the miniseries in Australia. A Stephen King fansite is tracking the production at www.liljas-library.com/salemmini.html
Rougestar Productions, Brendan's production company, is currently developing the script for Ten Empty, a feature film for Mushroom Pictures.