Early life and work
Goldberg was born to a American Jews, Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lived in nearby Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, Jenkintown. His parents are Beverly Goldberg (née Solomon) (born October 8, 1943) and Murray Goldberg (September 25, 1940 – February 1, 2008); he is the youngest of three sons, with brothers Eric (born August 18, 1967) and Barry (born October 15, 1969). He produced his first play, ''Dr. Pickup'', in 1992 at the age of 15, and won the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival. He attended Stagedoor Manor, a performing arts camp. His plays were performed in venues such as 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 a finalist for the American Theater Critics Association's 1997 M. Elizabeth Osborn#M. Elizabeth Osborn Award, 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.Career
Screenwriting
Goldberg's first comedy-writing job began in 2003 for the sitcom ''Still Standing (American TV series), 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, Trigger Street Productions, and college friend Kyle Newman to develop the screenplay for ''Fanboys (2009 film), 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 (2009 film), Fanboys'', Goldberg was hired to write the screenplays for ''The Jetsons''; a 2007 remake of ''Revenge of the Nerds'' (1984) starring Adam Brody, which was cancelled after three weeks of filming; ''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 (2010 film), How to Train Your Dragon'', before moving over to write ''Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space'' as well as the 2011 ''How to Train Your Dragon'' Christmas special, ''Gift of the Night Fury''. He is currently adapting the 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'', ''Daddy Day Camp'', ''Bobism'', ''Jeff the Immortal'', and a remake of ''Night of the Living Dorks''. Goldberg also produced the documentary ''Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters'', which explores the life and work of comic creator Mike Mignola.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 Broadcasting Company, Fox comedy series ''Breaking In (TV 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. Before ''Breaking In'', Goldberg also wrote on the shows ''Aliens in America'', ''Secret Girlfriend'', ''Voltron Force'', ''WordGirl'' and Kevin Williamson's ''Glory Days (2002 TV series), 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 (TV series), 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 AJ Michalka and Sean Giambrone. The autobiographical show was picked up by ABC with a title change to '' The Goldbergs'' and ran through ten seasons before ending in 2023. He also co-created ''Imaginary Mary'' and ''The Goldbergs'' spinoff series ''Schooled (TV series), Schooled'' for the network. Goldberg also co-developed and produced ''The Muppets Mayhem'', a Muppets spinoff series starring Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, The Electric Mayhem, which streamed on Disney+, Disney Plus in 2023.Other projects
On July 22, 2020, Goldberg, along with Uncle Louie, launched challenge coins with the Garbage Pail Kids. They were licensed by Topps and sold out in minutes. On January 26, 2024, Goldberg was announced to be co-writing the Marvel Comics series ''What If (comics)#Aliens: What If…?, Aliens: What If…?'' with Brian Volk-Weiss, Hans Rodionoff, and Leon and Paul Reiser, to be illustrated by Guiu Vilanova.References
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