McGreevey was a native of
Muncie, Indiana, who went on to live in other parts of Indiana, including
Bloomington,
Evansville, and
Logansport. He began reading by the time he was 3 years old. By age 6 he was in the third grade at St. Vincent Catholic School in Logansport, and then he skipped from the third grade to the fifth grade. He wrote a play at age 7 and had his two sisters perform it with him with other family members as the audience. When McGreevey was in high school he wrote, directed, and starred in a play as a fundraiser for the debate team; he subsequently wrote and starred in a production for the yearbook. He attended
Indiana University, majoring in English and writing and performing in radio and theater. The drama department performed two of his plays during his senior year there. == Career ==