Wellington Yang ( Traditional Chinese: ?????????, Pinyin: Y??ng Ch??ngw??i ) is an Taiwanese American actor, playwright, and singer.

Yang was born in New York City. His parents emigrated from Taiwan in 1969. His mother returned to Taipei in 1991 to direct foreign affairs for the Democratic Progressive Party. Yang grew up in Great Neck, New York and graduated from the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 1990. There, he sang in the glee club and was concertmaster of the orchestra. He has played the violin since age 4. At Lawrenceville, Yang played Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance in 1990, his first show. He then attended Columbia University, graduating in 1994. At Columbia, he played Leonard Meryll in Gilbert and Sullivan opera, The Yeomen of the Guard and then performed in The Mikado, both with the Barnard Gilbert and Sullivan Society. He sang for two years with the Kingsmen, Columbia's most prestigious acappella group.

. Yang graduated with honors in political science/international relations from Columbia University.

In 1993, while a senior at Columbia, Yang was picked to star in the original Broadway production of Miss Saigon, where he went on to play the lead role of Thuy. He left the Miss Saigon company in 1995 to tour Asia in the title role of Aladdin in Cole Porter's Aladdin. That same year, Yang was cast by the American opera director Peter Sellars' to play one of the leading roles in John Adams (composer) world premiere of I Was Looking At the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky. The opera's world tour included stops at Lincoln Center, Cal Arts in Berkeley, the Edinburgh International Festival, Hamburg's Thalia Theater, the Helsinki Festival, and the Paris Festival. These performances were called "dynamic" by Time Magazine, "passionate" by The New York Times, and "one of the most remarkable moments in recent operatic times" by the Scotland Times. Yang returned to the New York stage in 1998 as Whizzer in NAATCO's non-traditional casting of William Finn's Falsettoland . The production was lauded for its universal appeal and The New York Times added that "it's Mr. Yang as the cocky, athletic Whizzer who delivers the most smashing performance. He's persuasive from start to finish as the boy toy who becomes a man in the arms of Marvin and the hospital bed he's confined to after developing AIDS. His angry anthem You Gotta Die Sometime is equal parts fire and frustration and further confirmation that Mr. Finn's ethnically specific work can in fact be a moving, multicultural experience."

Yang has also appeared in numerous television shows such as , As the World Turns, National Geographic Explorer and Ghostwriter . In 2001, Yang also co-hosted the talk show Studio Y on MSG Metro Channels, where he interviewed celebrities that included Tina Fey, Ed McMahon, Leslie Bibb, and many others.

In 2005, Yang premiered the musical concert Finding Home , a show that paralleled the story of his parents to that of him and his then girlfriend Dina Morishita. The show premiered at UCLA???s Royce Hall and was presented by TUF. It was at the end of that sold-out concert that Yang surprised Morishita by proposing to her in front of the sold out audience. Finding Home later went on to play at Taiwan???s National Concert Hall and Vancouver???s Explorasian Festival in 2006.

In 1997, Yang founded Second Generation, a New York based theater company dedicated to bringing Asian American stories to the world's stage. Under his artistic leadership, the company cultivated the works of many emerging playwrights, many of whom went on to receive productions throughout the country. The company also commissioned Yang along with co-writers Brian Yorkey and Woody Pak to write and develop the musicals Making Tracks and The Wedding Banquet (a musical adaptation of Ang Lee's Academy Award winning film). Making Tracks first premiered in 1999 at the Taipei Theater in New York then went on to further development at Taiwan's National Theater in 2001, Seattle's Village Theater, in 2002, and San Jose Repertory Theater in 2004. The Wedding Banquet received its world premiere with productions in Singapore, Taiwan, and Seattle in 2003. In this production of The Wedding Banquet , Yang and his team chose Dina Morishita (who had formerly played Eponine in Les Mis??rables and Kim in Miss Saigon) to play opposite Yang as Wei Wei.

He married Dina Morishita, a stage actress, in July 2005.

• Miss Saigon

• Cole Porter's Aladdin

• I Was Looking At the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky

• Making Tracks

• The Wedding Banquet

• Finding Home

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

• Ghostwriter

• The Cut Runs Deep

• Studio Y

• Popcorn Shrimp

• Asian Excellence Awards

• Studio Y

• Peter Sellars

• Taiwanese American

• John Adams

• Website

• Asian Excellence Awards

• Second Generation

• The Meaning of Asian American - Newsweek