Greg McGee

Greg’s early success as a playwright launched a career as a successful writer over a wide variety of genres. His work is known for its hard-hitting observations about NZ society.

Foreskin’s Lament (1980) drew on the rugby culture of the period to comment more broadly on national codes and values. The play had influence far beyond the usual realm of theatre audiences and has become a NZ classic.

His novel The Antipodeans was published in 2015 and long-listed in the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for fiction. It spent 49 weeks in New Zealand's bestseller charts. It will be published in the UK by Lightning Books in 2018.

His television writing has won numerous awards. BBC audiences might remember a four part series starring Frank Findlay, Erebus, The Aftermath.

He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Alex Bosco, and won the 2010 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Fiction with Cut & Run.

He has also ghost-written biographies for Richie McCaw (published in the UK as The Real McCaw) and for NZ cricket captain, Brendon McCullum

During his university years he played rugby to the highest level, and was a Junior All Black and twice an All Blacks trialist. These days, he plays golf and walks the dog.