Welly Yang

Wellington Yang (Traditional Chinese: 楊呈偉, Pinyin: Yáng Chéngwěi) is an American actor, playwright, and singer. He has starred in the Broadway shows "Miss Saigon" and "Aladdin". Yang has also appeared in numerous television shows such as ", As the World Turns, National Geographic Explorer" and "Ghostwriter". He is the founder and artistic director of Second Generation, an Asian American non-profit theater company. He is active in the Taiwanese American community and works closely with the Taiwanese United Fund (TUF).

"Finding Home" is a musical concert tracing the story of his parents, which premiered at UCLA’s Royce Hall in 2005 and went on to play at Taiwan’s National Concert Hall and Vancouver’s Explorasian Festival in 2006.

In his work with Second Generation, Yang founded the "Concert of Excellence" to celebrate the achievements of Asian Americans in entertainment. [http://www.2g.org/home/coe/] Now presented as the "Asian Excellence Awards", the awards show is the only nationally televised event celebrating significant Asian and Asian American achievements in entertainment, the arts and other disciplines that have had a profound impact on American culture. [http://www.azntv.com/axawards/about/]

He married Dina Morishita, a fellow theatre actor in July 2005.

Yang is a native of New York. He graduated from the Lawrenceville School in 1990 and Columbia University in 1994.

Plays and Musicals

* "Miss Saigon"
* "Aladdin"
* "Making Tracks"
* "The Wedding Banquet"
* "Finding Home"

Filmography

* "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"
* "Ghostwriter"

ee also

*Taiwanese American

External links

* [http://www.welly.com/ Website]
* [http://axawards.com/ Asian Excellence Awards]
* [http://www.2g.org Second Generation]
* [http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3069216/ The Meaning of Asian American - Newsweek]