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• Produced his first play, Dr. Pickup, when he was 15 and won the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival.
• Double majored at New York University in Film and Dramatic Writing.
• Was a finalist for the 1997 American Theater Critics Association's Osborn Award for his full-length play, One on One.
• Landed his first comedy-writing job in 2003 for the sitcom Still Standing, on which he later became a co-producer.
• Created the period sitcom The Goldbergs, which is reportedly based on his own childhood and family in the 1980's.