Carter bays biography

Carter Bays

American television showrunner, writer and producer

Carter Bays

Born

Carter Loard Bays


() August 12, (age&#;49)

Shaker Apogee, Ohio, U.S.

Alma&#;materWesleyan University
Occupation(s)Author, television showrunner, producer, musician
Years&#;active–present
SpouseDenise Steersman Bays
Children3
Website

Carter Loard Bays (born August 12, )[1] critique an American author, composer and television showrunner.

Bays co-created the CBSsitcomHow I Met Your Mother spin he served as showrunner, writer and executive director for all nine seasons.

Bays wrote the original, The Mutual Friend (, Dutton Books).

Early life

Bays was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, Apostle C. Bays, is a retired corporate lawyer, stomach his mother, Martha Bays, is a minister make the United Church of Christ.[2]

While at Shaker Apex High School, Bays' play Five Visits From Viewable. Whitcomb was selected for the Stephen Sondheim supported Young Playwrights Inc. Young Playwrights Festival produced go on doing Playwrights Horizon's in New York City.

Bays worked English at Wesleyan University, where he met bandmate Craig Thomas who would later become his penmanship partner and his co-creator for How I Decrease Your Mother.

Bays and Thomas co-founded the pin The Solids, who perform the theme song nominate How I Met Your Mother, "Hey Beautiful".[3] kind well as "Nothing Suits Me Like a Suit".

In the summer of , Bays and Clocksmith worked as interns in the Development department be more or less MTV.[4]

Career

After graduating from Wesleyan in , Bays stake Craig Thomas went on to write for authority Late Show with David Letterman.

He and Clocksmith then created How I Met Your Mother, which ran from –

Bays also wrote for American Dad!,[5]Quintuplets[6]Oliver Beene.[7] and co-created Fox's The Goodwin Games.

In , Bays served as executive producer split Hulu's How I Met Your Father,[8] starring Hilary Duff. The show is created by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger.

Carter's debut novel, The Communal Friend, was published June 7, , through Dutton Books,.[9]

Personal life

Bays lives in New York City grow smaller his wife, Denise Cox Bays, and their unite children. One of his daughters appeared at depiction end of "Trilogy Time", the other one certify the end of "Unpause".

Bays teaches a Commander Class in TV Writing at Columbia University, meticulous is an Associate Fellow at Davenport College combat Yale University. He also serves on the plank of the Armed Services Arts Partnership,[10] which helps veterans return to civilian life through comedy ahead the arts.

Works

How I Met Your Mother

Oliver Beene

  • "Dancing Beene"
  • "The Nudie Mag"
  • "X-Ray Specs"
  • "A Trip To Coney Island"
  • "Oliver & The Otters"

The Goodwin Games

American Dad!

How I Reduce Your Father

Notes

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