Ariel Yang

Ariel Yang is a Development Producer, Line Producer, and Production Manager with international broadcast network and on-set production experience, currently working in TV development. Ariel is well versed in all phases of production. She has had the pleasure of working on cross-cultural teams at various points in her career in Hong Kong, Beijing, and her hometown of Toronto, both in private companies and non-profit institutions.

She is currently a Creative Producer at New Metric Media (Letterkenny, Shoresy, and Children Ruin Everything). As a Creative Producer, she has several television comedy shows in various stages of development. She leads a full slate of live-action comedy projects, in addition to leading New Metric Media’s first primetime animation comedy slate.

As an Independent Producer, her credits include the upcoming comedy feature, Paige Darcy, written by and starring Alice Moran (Sunnyside, Decoys) alongside Andrew Phung (Run The Burbs, Kim’s Convenience) and the musical comedy feature, Mother Of All Shows (2023), starring Wendie Malick (Young Sheldon, Hot In Cleveland, Just Shoot Me!) that had its US premiere at the 2023 Art Of Brooklyn Film Festival and Canadian premiere at the 2024 Kingston Film Festival. Other producing credits include Season 2 of the hit web series Gay Mean Girls (Season 2), nominated for several Canadian Screen Awards, now streaming on KindaTV.

On the broadcast network side, she was a Content Executive for Warnermedia Asia, working under the flagship Cartoon Network Asia brand. During her time at Warnermedia, she was the key organizer of CN Imagination Studios, a Creator-focused talent development initiative for the Asia Pacific region. She connected animation industry heavy-hitters, like Producer, Ollie Green (Rick and Morty, Robot Chicken!) and Creator, Michael Cusack (Smiling Friends, YOLO: Crystal Fantasy) to prospective talent.

Ariel started her career in film and TV working in the Programming Department at VisionTV, as an offline video editor for a now defunct music magazine, and independently produced a Toronto music documentary short entitled, Untold Noise, available to watch on YouTube.