Biografia
Bradley Trevor Greive AM (BTG) is a writer, former paratrooper, adventurer, strongman, television presenter, and the world's highest selling humorist.
BTG is one of Australia's most prolific and successful authors. He has written 25 books which have been translated into 27 different languages, and have been sold in 115 different countries. Six of BTG's books have appeared atop the New York Times bestseller list; his books has garnered multiple awards worldwide and have sold more than 30 million copies.
After graduating from The Royal Military College (Duntroon) and served in the Australian Army as a paratroop combat rifle platoon commander, heavy weapons platoon commander, and the XO of Delta Company. BTG played rugby for the Army, and his specialist combat qualifications include: Airborne Operations, Air Mobile Operations, Survival, Mine Warfare & Anti Handling Devices (Instructor), Heavy Weapons - Direct Fire Weapons, Anti-Armour, Heavy Machine Guns (Instructor).
After leaving the military BTG became the youngest feature cartoonist at The Sydney Morning Herald before deciding to pursue a full-time writing career. BTG has created and hosted numerous TV, stage and radio productions, including Godfrey Bigot's weekly political sketches on Channel 7's Today Tonight, and a series of comedic sketches/bumpers for MTV Australia in 1997.
In 2003, BTG collaborated with Kapow Pictures (Australia) to write and direct an animated short for Nickelodeon called Agent Green, and a short film called Show & Tell, which won the Comgraph Animation Gold Award, the Tellrude Film Festival Best Short Film Award, the Danish International 3D Award, and was nominated for an AFI/ACTA Award.
BTG completed cosmonaut training with the Russia space program at Star City, in 2004.
In 2006 he won a Polynesian Rock-Lifting Championship in Ha'apiti, Moorea.
In 2007 BTG produced and hosted 'The World According to Bradley Trevor Greive' on Tasmania's community radio station Star FM and produced two sell out performances of 'An Intimate Evening with John Cleese' - starring John Cleese and featuring Richard Morecroft.
BTG has long enjoyed a close relationship with ABC Radio and Television, appearing on numerous programs over the past decade, including Stateline, ABC National News, ABC Radio National Night Club, and LNL, as well an appearance on Creature Features with his pet rabbit, Biff. Over December 2009 and January 2010, BTG presented ABC Radio National Evenings (hosted by Christopher Lawrence) with his 'E-Mail From America' - a weekly series of eclectic and humorous reports from Florida, USA. The title of BTG's program was a tongue in cheek homage to the legendary Alistair Cooke's 'Letter From America'. BTG and Christopher Lawrence teamed up again, this time on ABC Classic FM, over Monday, April 5th, 2010 to co-host "The Life Changers", the finale of First Time Classics, a publicly voted classical music showcase, produced by Marian Arnold.
In 2014 BTG became the resident late night TV wildlife expert for both CHELSEA LATELY (E!) and THE LATE LATE SHOW with CRAIG FERGUSON (CBS).
In 2014 Greive was awarded the Order of Australia for his significant service to literature and wildlife conservation. He has won the award for Australian Book of the Year twice, in 2000 and in 2017, and well as numerous international publishing honors.
In 2015 BTG was formally adopted by the Deisheetaan clan of the Native American Tlingit people, of Southeast Alaska, and was given the name Yáa Gí Yéil (Raven by the Pond).
In 2016 BTG rewrote Ogden Nash's humorous verse for 'The Carnival of the Animals' (Le carnaval des animaux) for an all-Australian themed wildlife production of Camille Saint-Saens's classic work, entitled The Carnival of the (Australian) Animals. BTG's production debuted with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and has since been performed numerous times at the Melbourne Recital Centre (featuring Bob Brown as Narrator), and by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the world famous Sydney Opera House. The Canberra Sinfonia is touring the work in rural Australia from July 2019.
In 2018, after several years of field research, BTG was credited with identifying new giant sub-species of Alaskan brown bear, and this discovery was featured in the Animal Planet documentary, FEAR ISLAND: FORTRESS OF THE BEARS.
BTG made two more television series with Animal Planet in 2019 - he was a featured wildlife expert host for NATURE'S STRANGEST MYSTERIES: SOLVED, and also the host of LITTLE GIANTS.
BTG's international bestselling 2016 book, PENGUIN BLOOM, was optioned to be adapted into a major motion picture by Naomi Watts, Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea and Emma Cooper, to be directed by Glendyn Ivin, with a screenplay written by Harry Cripps and Shaun Grant. Naomi Watts will also star as Sam Bloom, whose remarkable true story is the basis of BTG's book. Principal photography for Penguin Bloom commences in Sydney, Australia, in July 2019.
In 2018 BTG announced that he intended to create a new comedy-adventure travel TV series to be produced in his home state of Tasmania. Screen Tasmania subsequently funded the development of FRIEND OF THE DEVIL, which featured actor/writer/producer, Adam Zwar (WILFRED, SQUINTERS, LOWDOWN, AGONY AUNTS).
BTG is passionate champion for wildlife conservation, and he funds or leads at least wildlife project on every continent. He is also an ambassador for children's literacy and was the Chairman of the National Poetry Prize for six years. He lives mostly in Tasmania, Australia, and Alaska, USA.
