Alan Michael Yang (Chinese: 楊維榕; born August 22, 1983) is an American screenwriter, producer and director.

[4] 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.

[5] While at Harvard, Yang began following the Boston Red Sox in college and developed an interest in baseball.

[10] Yang wrote the Funny or Die short, Parks and Recreation is the Wu Tang of Comedy (2010) directed by Dean Holland and Michael Schur, starring Aziz Ansari, Rashida Jones, Amy Poehler, as well as RZA and Questlove.

Yang said in an interview that Brian's character in the episode, played by Kelvin Yu, was largely based on himself and his family.

[13][14] According to Yang, while topics on the show include racial diversity and racism, the main goal is to be authentic to their life experiences.

"There's an episode or two about being Indian or Asian on TV, about dealing with your parents who are immigrants — but we fall in love, we have work trouble, we have all these other stories that make the characters more well rounded.

[16] In 2018, he reunited with Matt Hubbard, who worked on Parks and Recreation with Yang, to create Amazon's Forever, a comedy-drama series starring Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph.

[5] He 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.

[5] On November 29, 2020, 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.