Adam F. Goldberg Biography

Adam F. Goldberg (born April 2, 1976) is an American television and film producer and writer. As a teenager, he attended the William Penn Charter School and Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in New York. Goldberg graduated from New York University in 1998 double majoring in film and dramatic writing.

Early life and work

Goldberg was born in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. His first produced play was in 1992 at the age of 15, where he won the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival for his play Dr. Pickup. 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.

Screenwriting

Goldberg's first comedy writing job was on Still Standing TV series in 2003 where he worked for 4 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.

After the success of Fanboys, Goldberg was hired to write the screenplays for The Jetsons, Revenge of the Nerds, Aliens in the Attic, and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. He also spent a year writing on DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon, before moving over to write Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space as well as 2011 How to Train Your Dragon Christmas special Gift of the Night Fury. He is currently adapting graphic novel Seal Team 7 for director Shawn Levy and bringing the book Simon Bloom: Gravity Keeper to the screen for Walden Media. Goldberg has also produced several movies, including The Comebacks (Fox), Daddy Day Camp (Columbia), Bobism (MGM), Jeff the Immortal (Universal) and a remake of Night of the Living Dorks (Warner Brothers).

Television

On the television side, Goldberg teamed up with Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison to write four pilots for various networks. In 2010, Happy Madison introduced him to King of Kong director Seth Gordon and together they created the 2011 FOX comedy series Breaking In. The show was pitched as "The Office meets the A-Team" and after a year of development was picked up to series. Prior to Breaking In, Goldberg also wrote on the shows Aliens in America, Secret Girlfriend, Voltron Force, WordGirl and Kevin Williamson's Glory Days.

In 2011 Goldberg signed a three-year overall deal with Sony Pictures TV. During this time, Goldberg was a producer on NBC's Community while developing new projects. In 2012, Goldberg got a pilot commitment to shoot an autobiographical show about his family titled How the F--- Am I Normal? and also reunited with Fox on a pilot starring Amanda Michalka and Alyson Michalka. The autobiographical show was picked up by ABC-TV with a title change to The Goldbergs.