Jessica Yu

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Jessica Lingman Yu (born 1966 in Palo Alto, California) is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has worked on documentaries, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (imdb) (1996).

Contents 1 Early life 2 Personal life 3 Selected filmography (as director) 4 External links

[edit] Early life

Yu graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California. She then went to Yale University and became a NCAA All American in fencing and competed on the US National team.

[edit] Personal life

She, her writer/actor husband Mark Salzman, and their daughters Ava and Esme live in Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]} A fifth-generation American, her father's family is from Shanghai and her mother's is from Guangdong.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Selected filmography (as director)

• Ping Pong Playa (2007)
• Protagonist (2007)
• Grey's Anatomy (TV series)
• The West Wing (TV series)
• In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)
• American Dreams TV Series
• The Guardian (TV series)
• ER (TV series)
• The Living Museum (1998)
• Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)
• The Conductor (1994)
• Sour Death Balls (1993)

[edit] External links

• Jessica Yu at the Internet Movie Database
• Protagonist Jessica Yu's Protagonist available from Alive Mind Media
• Ping Pong Playa official film website
• Protagonist official film website
• In The Realms Of The Unreal official film website by Diorama Films, LLC
• Breathing Lessons official film website on Pacific News Service
• Sour Death Balls video at Lumen Eclipse