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Alan Yang

American showrunner and filmmaker (born 1983)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Alan Michael Yang is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He wrote and produced 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 won a Peabody Award. At the 68th Emmy Awards in 2016, Yang and Ansari became the first writers of Asian descent to win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for Master of None, which was also nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. In 2018, Yang co-created the Amazon Video series Forever, and in 2022 he co-created Loot for Apple TV +.

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“Alan Yang” enters the record as american showrunner and filmmaker (born 1983). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alan, Yang and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alan Yang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.