Adam F. Goldberg is an American television and film producer and writer. As a teenager, he attended the William Penn Charter School

William Penn Charter School

William Penn Charter School is an independent school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1689 by William Penn...

 and Stagedoor Manor

Stagedoor Manor

Stagedoor Manor is a performing arts summer camp located in Loch Sheldrake, New York. Over the past 36 years, it has trained thousands of young actors, many of whom have gone on to success in film, television, and theatre....

 Performing Arts Training Center in New York. Goldberg graduated from New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

 in 1998 double majoring in film and dramatic writing.

Early work

Goldberg’s 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 dramady 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

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C...

 in Washington, D.C.

Screenwriting

Goldberg's first comedy writing job was on Still Standing (TV series)

Still Standing (TV series)

Still Standing is an American sitcom television series. It debuted on CBS on September 30, 2002, and ended March 8, 2006. Lifetime obtained the United States syndication rights to the show in February 2005 and aired it until 2009...

 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

Kyle Newman

Kyle Newman is an American film producer, director, writer, editor and actor. He is brother to The Simpsons and Futurama designer Kevin Newman. In January 2005, while working on the set of Fanboys, he met actress and model Jaime King. Within three months of dating, the two moved in together...

 to develop the screenplay for Fanboys (2009 film). After a year, they sold it to The Weinstein Company

The Weinstein Company

The Weinstein Company is an American film studio founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 after the brothers left the then-Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979...

. 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

The Jetsons

The Jetsons is a animated American sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in prime-time from 1962–1963 and again from 1985–1987...

, Revenge of the Nerds

Revenge of the Nerds

Revenge of the Nerds is a 1984 comedy film satirizing social life on a college campus. The film stars Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards, with Curtis Armstrong, Ted McGinley, Julia Montgomery, Brian Tochi, Larry B. Scott, John Goodman, and Donald Gibb...

, Aliens in the Attic, and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz

The Muppets' Wizard of Oz

The Muppets' Wizard of Oz is a 2005 musical telefilm directed by Kirk Thatcher and starring Ashanti and The Muppets. The film was produced by Bill Barretta and written by Debra Frank, Steve L. Hayes, Tom Martin, and Adam F...

. He also spent a year writing on Dreamworks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon is a series of nine books set in a fictional Viking world. The books were published starting in 2003 as children's novels written by British author Cressida Cowell and published by Hodder Children's Books...

, before moving over to write Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space as well as the upcoming 2011 How to Train Your Dragon Christmas special. He is currently adapting graphic novel Seal Team 7 for director Shawn Levy

Shawn Levy

Shawn Adam Levy is a Canadian-American actor, director and producer who directed the comedy films Big Fat Liar, Just Married, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Pink Panther, Night at the Museum, Date Night, and the sci-fi movie Real Steel...

 and bringing the book Simon Bloom

Simon Bloom

Simon Bloom is a series of young adult novels by Michael Reisman, and the main character of the series. Set in the fictional town of Lawnville, New Jersey, it is about a boy who finds a book that lets him control the laws of physics...

: 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, Adam teamed up with Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison

Happy Madison

Happy Madison Productions is an American film/television production company founded by actor/comedian Adam Sandler in 1999 that is best known for comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, two box office successes starring Sandler himself, both...

 to write four pilots for various networks. In 2010, Happy Madison introduced him to King of Kong director Seth Gordon

Seth Gordon

Seth Gordon is an American film director, producer, and film editor. He has produced and directed both film and TV for various film and television studios, including PBS, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations 1% For Development Fund...

 and together they created the 2011 FOX comedy series Breaking In (TV series)

Breaking In (TV series)

Breaking In is an American television series which premiered on Fox on April 6, 2011. The series aired at 9:30 pm as a midseason replacement following American Idol. The half-hour workplace comedy stars Christian Slater, Michael Rosenbaum, Odette Annable, Trevor Moore, Alphonso McAuley and Bret...

. 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

Secret Girlfriend

Secret Girlfriend is an American television series which aired in October and November 2009 on Comedy Central. The show features the viewer as the "star" of a dating satire, with the show's actors addressing the camera as if it were the lead character....

, Voltron Force, Wordgirl and Kevin Williamson’s Glory Days.