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Home/People/Alan Yang
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Born
Aug 22, 1983
Age 42
Place of Birth
Riverside, California, USA
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male

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Movies
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Also Known As
Άλαν Γιανγκ
アラン・ヤング
艾倫·楊
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Alan Yang

Writing

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.

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