GregMcGee
- Writer
Greg McGee's first play Foreskin's Lament (1980) is seen as a watershed moment in the maturing of a distinctly Kiwi theatre. Since then McGee has demonstrated (with tele-movie Old Scores) that rugby can be the stuff of comedy as well as critique. He has also created or co-created a run of television dramas — including long-running law show Street Legal — many of them award winners.
Screenography
Biography
Greg McGee was playing rugby for Otago aged only 19. Five years later, with a law degree behind him, he made a five-year plan to change his life and become a writer. The All Black trialist left a promising law job to become a player/coach in a village in Italy, then began writing a play about a rugby team riven by conflict.
Awards
2002 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Script - Drama Series: for Street Legal
1995 TV Guide Television Awards
Best Script - Television Drama(shared with Tom Scott): for Fallout
1994 US Writers Guild Foundation
International Screen and Television Writer's Film Festival Award (shared with James Griffin: for Marlin Bay
“[I decided to pursue a career] even more exacting and rigorous and ambitious than being an All Black, or even than writing one successful play: I wanted to see whether I could earn a living from writing.”