Brendan ran Wharf2Loud at the Sydney Theatre Company for two years, a company later succeeded by Cate Blanchett. Playwrights award, the richest playwriting award in Australia for new talent. Brendan was the recipient of the 2003 Griffin Playwright award for most outstanding new work in a given year, and his play 'Bed' earned him a share of the 2001 Patrick White He continued to work in film, theatre and television as an actor, but then began writing his own plays in the late 1990's to immediate success. He worked in television drama during his teens, before getting his BA in Communication, Theatre and Media from Charles Sturt University, Bathurst in 1998. At age 8, he was cast in a TV commercial while awaiting one of his sisters to come out of a dance rehearsal. His older sisters, both singers and dancers, encouraging Brendan to create his own shows to perform after dinner in front of the family. Australian actor Brendan Cowell was raised in the beach side suburb of Cronulla by parents Yvonne and Bruce.
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