Background
Goldberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lived in nearby Jenkintown.
Goldberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and lived in nearby Jenkintown.
He graduated from the William Penn Charter School in 1994.
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.