Adam F. Goldberg
| Adam F. Goldberg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 2, 1976 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film producer, television producer, writer |
| Spouse(s) | Sara Goldberg |
| Parent(s) | Murray and Beverly Goldberg |
Adam Frederich Goldberg (born April 2, 1976) is an American television and film producer and writer. He is best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series Breaking In and The Goldbergs.
Goldberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a Jewish family, and lived in nearby Jenkintown. His parents are Beverly (née Solomon) and the late Murray Goldberg (d. 2008); he is the youngest of three children. He produced his first play, Dr. Pickup, in 1992 at the age of 15, and won the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival. He graduated from the William Penn Charter School in 1994.
By the time he was 19, he had written over 50 plays which were performed around the country including the Sundance Playwrights Lab, the Illusion Theater, The Greenwich Street Theater, The Saint Marks Theatre, The Tada! Theater, The Walnut Street Theater and the Joseph Papp Theater.
He was the 1995 Anne M. Kaufman Endowment ARTS Awardee in the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts program for Playwriting.
He was a finalist for the American Theater Critics Association's 1997 Osborn Award for his full-length play, One on One.
His dramedy The Purple Heart was produced by the Institute for Arts and Education at the Annenberg Theater and also won first place in The Very Special Arts Playwriting Award and was produced at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Goldberg's first comedy-writing job began in 2003 for the sitcom Still Standing, where he worked for four years and finished as a co-producer. After his first year on Still Standing, he teamed up with Picture Machine, Triggerstreet and college friend Kyle Newman to develop the screenplay for Fanboys. After a year, they sold it to The Weinstein Company. The screenplay ended up seventh on the 2005 Black List for most popular unproduced scripts of the year.
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