Background
Goldberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lived in nearby Jenkintown.
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Adam Frederich Goldberg
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He graduated from the William Penn Charter School in 1994.
Career
He is best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series Breaking In and The Goldbergs. By the time he was 19, he had written over 50 plays which were performed around the country including the Sundance Playwrights Laboratory, 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.
Achievements
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He produced his first play, Doctor Pickup, in 1992 at the age of 15, and won the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival. 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, District of Columbia
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United States
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Purple Heart
The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed, while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the United States. military.The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed, while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the United States. military.