Years active 1998–present Spouse Denise Cox | Role Television writer Name Carter Bays | |
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Occupation Television showrunner, writer, producer, and musician Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Similar People Craig Thomas, Pamela Fryman, Josh Radnor, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan Profiles | ||
Craig thomas and carter bays dish on himym season 9
Carter L. Bays (born August 12, 1975) is an American television showrunner, writer and producer. Along with writing partner Craig Thomas, he is best known as creator, writer, and executive producer of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. His show has been nominated for seven primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Original Song for "Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit."
Contents
- Craig thomas and carter bays dish on himym season 9
- An evening with carter bays 97 and craig thomas 97
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- How I Met Your Mother
- Oliver Beene
- The Goodwin Games
- American Dad
- References
In another collaboration with Thomas, Bays co-founded the band The Solids, who perform the theme song to How I Met Your Mother, "Hey Beautiful".
An evening with carter bays 97 and craig thomas 97
Early life
Bays was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, James C. Bays, is a retired corporate lawyer, and his mother is a minister in the United Church of Christ. While at Shaker Heights High School, Bays' play was selected for the 1993 Young Playwrights Festival in New York City.
Bays graduated from Wesleyan University in 1997. In the summer of 1996 Bays and Thomas were interns in the Development department of MTV.
Bays became an intern at MTV in the Fall of 1996, which would later influence his writing.
Career
After graduating from Wesleyan in 1997, Bays and Thomas became writing partners, writing for the Late Show With David Letterman.
Bays also wrote for American Dad!, Quintuplets, and Oliver Beene.
Personal life
Bays lives in New York City with his wife, Denise Cox Bays, and their three children, Pippa, Georgina, and Jack. One of his daughters appeared at the end of Trilogy Time, another one at the end of Unpause. Bays serves on the Board of Young Playwrights, Inc.