Carin Greenberg

Carin Greenberg (born September 17, 1959) is a writer, story editor and producer of children’s entertainment. She is a Peabody finalist and winner of three Daytime Emmys, two Annie Awards and a Writers Guild Award. She wrote a series of children's books under the name Carin Greenberg Baker. Life and career Greenberg was born on September 17, 1959, in New York City, to parents Elaine Kussack, an actress, and Lawrence J. Greenberg, a U.S. Air Force officer. As a child, Greenberg acted in television and film. In 1980, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and subsequently attended Georgetown University Law Center. She left law school to begin a writing career, starting out as a copywriter for advertisements and later becoming a ghostwriter of young adult books. In 1992, she began publishing her Karate Club series of children's books; at the time of writing them, she practiced karate and her husband operated a karate school. She was an executive producer and co-creator of the animated show, Growing Up Creepie, which ran from 2006 to 2008. She wrote scripts for the children's show, Between the Lions, and was part of the team that won a 2004 Daytime Emmy for the series. Credits Greenberg was the writer of the HBO family special, The Weight of the Nation for Kids: Quiz Ed!, which received a 2013 Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Children’s Television Program; Story Editor/Writer for Disney Jr’s Octonauts; Co-Producer of a live action pilot, The Adventures of Taxi Dog; Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Growing Up Creepie (Daytime Emmy nomination); Supervising Producer of ToddWorld, which she also developed for television (3 Emmy nominations; 2 Humanitas nominations); Executive Story Editor for Dragon Tales, HBO’s Harold and the Purple Crayon (Humanitas nomination) and A Little Curious, 101 Dalmatians: the series (2 Daytime Emmy nominations), and Ghostwriter (Writers Guild Award winner). Greenberg has also written episodes for numerous series including Between the Lions (Emmy winner & additional Emmy nomination), Doc McStuffins, Sherriff Callie’s Wild West, and Angelina Ballerina, among many others. Greenberg also scripted three Dragon Tales Live stage shows, which toured the United States.