Director

Alan Yang

Writing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 1020767

IMDb ID: nm1520649

Known for: Writing

Born: August 22, 1983

Age: 42

Place of birth: Riverside, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2006 - 2025

Years active: 20

Average TMDB rating: 6.95

Wikidata: Q4708113

Also known as

Άλαν Γιανγκ • アラン・ヤング • 艾倫·楊

Frequent jobs

Director (2)Writer (5)Executive Producer (3)Producer (1)Teleplay (1)

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Biography

Alan Michael Yang (Chinese: 楊維榕; born August 22, 1983) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He was a writer and producer for the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, for which he received his first Emmy nomination. With Aziz Ansari, Yang co-created the Netflix series Master of None, which premiered in 2015 to critical acclaim. The series was awarded a Peabody Award, and at the 68th Emmy Awards in 2016, Yang and Ansari won Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Master of None and became the first writers of Asian descent to win in the category, which was also nominated in the Outstanding Comedy Series category. Yang also was the screenwriter of the 2014 comedy Date and Switch. In 2018, Yang co-created the Amazon Video series Forever. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Yang, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.