1. Alan Michael Yang is an American screenwriter, producer and director.
22 Facts About Alan Yang
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Alan Yang was a writer and producer for the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, for which he received his first Emmy nomination.
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Alan Yang was the screenwriter of the 2014 comedy Date and Switch.
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Alan Yang's father is a retired OB-GYN from Huwei and his mother is a high school math teacher.
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Alan Yang attended high school at Riverside Poly High School in Riverside, California.
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Alan Yang studied biology at Harvard University, graduating at age 20.
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Alan Yang said in an interview that he chose to study Biology when his parents told him math and science were a "safe zone" for people of color.
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Alan Yang was named "10 Screenwriters to Watch" by Variety magazine in 2009.
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Alan Yang wrote for Last Call with Carson Daly and contributed to South Park before he landed a job in 2008 as a staff writer for the then-upcoming NBC comedy Parks and Recreation.
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Alan Yang was hired six months before the job began, so he wrote two screenplays, White Dad and Gay Dude.
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Alan Yang wrote the Funny or Die short, Parks and Recreation is the Wu Tang of Comedy directed by Dean Holland and Michael Schur, starring Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler, as well as RZA and Questlove.
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In 2012, Alan Yang started writing a sitcom about a father-son relationship; when Parks and Rec producer Greg Daniels suggested he make the characters Asian, Alan Yang declined as he assumed it would not be successful.
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In 2016, Alan Yang began writing for The Good Place, and was credited for the second episode.
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Alan Yang directed an episode in the show's second season.
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In 2018, he reunited with Matt Hubbard, who worked on Parks and Recreation with Alan Yang, to create Amazon's Forever, a comedy-drama series starring Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph.
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Alan Yang occasionally appears as a member of Andy's band, Mouse Rat.
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Alan Yang directed the Jay-Z music video "Moonlight", revised by Zong Yu.
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Alan Yang served as an executive producer for Master of None, as a co-executive producer, supervising producer, producer and co-producer on Parks and Recreation, an executive producer on Date and Switch, a consulting producer on South Park, a producer on the Funny or Die short Parks and Recreation is the Wu Tang of Comedy, and as an associate producer on Last Call with Carson Daly.
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Alan Yang served as a consultant for the 2007 MTV Movie Awards.
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Alan Yang is friends with chef David Chang and was featured in the Netflix non-fiction original series Ugly Delicious episode "Fried Rice" where he discussed Chinese cuisine.
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Alan Yang has done standup comedy in a small local stand-up comedy club.
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On November 29,2020, Alan Yang supported Chang to help him become the first celebrity to win the $1,000,000 top prize for his charity, Southern Smoke Foundation, and the fourteenth overall million dollar winner on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, along with Mina Kimes via the phone-a-friend lifeline on the million-dollar question.