Biography
Alan Yang is an American writer, director and producer. He began his career writing for Last Call with Carson Daly and South Park, before joining the writing staff of the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), where he also directed two episodes.
With Aziz Ansari, Yang co-created the Netflix series Master of None (2015–2021). He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2016 for the episode "Parents", becoming one of the first writers of Asian descent to win in the category. Yang wrote and directed an episode of The Good Place (2016).
His other credits include the feature film Tigertail (2020), which he wrote and directed, and the series Forever (2018) and Loot (2022), both of which he co-created.
