Carl W. Adams

Carl W. Adams has created, written and directed numerous award-winning animated programming for television and cable networks. At Clambake Animation, LLC, he serves as Director of Development, creating, developing and producing shows. Credits include: Creative Consultant for HBO's, "The Ricky Gervais Show" for HBO. Created and Executive Produced the Adult Swim series called "Southies" based on his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Other credits include Adult Swim's, "Assy McGee", which ran for two seasons. This was Carl's third successful series for Adult Swim; he also served as Co-Executive Producer for the award-winning and critically acclaimed "Home Movies" that aired for four seasons. Carl was the Producer of several animated shorts for Cartoon Network's "Sunday Pants" series. His innovative work as an editor, story writer, and director for Comedy Central's first animated series, "Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist," helped garner a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as a network Peabody and two CableACE Awards during the course of its six seasons. Carl also co-created and produced Noggin's first original animated series, "O'Grady High," a teen show featuring some of television's most talented comedians. He produced animated segments for Cosby on ABC, while simultaneously producing, story writing, and directing "The Dick and Paula Celebrity Special" for FX. Directed and produced for Cosby on CBS and shorts for Julias POV on NBC Carl wrote and produced children's shows for PBS The Electric Company and PBS LA. Commercial credits include producing multiple national advertising campaigns for digital, mobile and television including Cookie Crisp, Baskin-Robbins, Ruffles Chips, Toyota Scion. Before founding Clambake Animation in 2007, Carl spent 16 years in animation with Tom Snyder Productions (now a Scholastic Company) and is currently developing several new projects for web and broadcast.