Jessica Yu

Jessica Yu
Born	Jessica Lingman Yu 1966 (age 46–47) Palo Alto, California
Occupation	Director, Writer, Producer
Spouse(s)	Mark Salzman

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). Yu's latest film "Last Call at the Oasis" (2012), based upon Alex Prud'homme's "The Ripple Effect".

Early life

Yu graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California. There, she wrote for the school newspaper, The Oracle. She then went to Yale University and became a NCAA All American in fencing and competed on the US National team.

Personal life

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

Selected filmography (as director)

• Last Call at the Oasis (2011)
• Ping Pong Playa (2008)
• Protagonist (2007)
• Scandal (TV series)
• 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)

Further reading

• Fry, Nathan, "2002 Alumni Spotlight: Jessica Yu", Ivy League Sports, Council of Ivy Group Presidents

External links

• Jessica Yu at the Internet Movie Database
• 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