Daniel Yin
I was born at the Sloane Hospital for Women on a dark and stormy
night, on what is considered the unluckiest day of the year, Friday the
13th. Contrary to popular belief, the "Friday the 13th" movies were not
inspired by the Yun run summer camps. The name change is coincidental
and should, in no way, be rationalized as the need to hide from
authorities. For those of you who do not know, I am the only "Yin" in
the family. The rest of family is made up of Yun, Yuan, and Yan.
My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon ... luge lessons ... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets ... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe.
When I was 18 I went to evil medical school. At age 25 I took up tap dancing. I wanted to be a quadruple threat: an actor, dancer.... (If this part seems familiar, it was the inspiration for Dr. Evil's bio.)
The evil medical school was really just UCSD. I did take Acting 101 while there though, for fun.
After undergrad, I went into exile to the Bay Area for 6 years. I met some great friends during my time away from So. Cal, but the warm waters beckoned to me. In 2002, I returned triumphantly by enrolling at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (how more fitting to return to So. Cal by enrolling at the Univ. of So. Cal?).
Armed with an MBA, I decided to go the non-traditional route of bouncing around rather than taking an executive position or a consulting position. I wanted to make sure I was well rounded by experiencing as many different positions and industries as possible. (I'm still doing that.)
And now, a new adventure begins as I try to unravel the mystery known as Jen Chang.
Rough Timeline:
Born in NYC 1973
Moved to LA 1977
Moved to San Diego 1981
Graduated from UCSD (aka Evil Medical School) 1996
Life in Exile 1996 - 2002
Name change from Yuan to Yin 1998
Triumphant Return to So. Cal 2002
1st Date with Jen Chang 2010
The Dannifer Experiment begins Fall of 2011
My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon ... luge lessons ... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets ... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe.
When I was 18 I went to evil medical school. At age 25 I took up tap dancing. I wanted to be a quadruple threat: an actor, dancer.... (If this part seems familiar, it was the inspiration for Dr. Evil's bio.)
The evil medical school was really just UCSD. I did take Acting 101 while there though, for fun.
After undergrad, I went into exile to the Bay Area for 6 years. I met some great friends during my time away from So. Cal, but the warm waters beckoned to me. In 2002, I returned triumphantly by enrolling at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (how more fitting to return to So. Cal by enrolling at the Univ. of So. Cal?).
Armed with an MBA, I decided to go the non-traditional route of bouncing around rather than taking an executive position or a consulting position. I wanted to make sure I was well rounded by experiencing as many different positions and industries as possible. (I'm still doing that.)
And now, a new adventure begins as I try to unravel the mystery known as Jen Chang.
Rough Timeline:
Born in NYC 1973
Moved to LA 1977
Moved to San Diego 1981
Graduated from UCSD (aka Evil Medical School) 1996
Life in Exile 1996 - 2002
Name change from Yuan to Yin 1998
Triumphant Return to So. Cal 2002
1st Date with Jen Chang 2010
The Dannifer Experiment begins Fall of 2011
Jennifer Moscardon Chang
Jen Chang, as she is called by her friends, was born in San
Francisco, and grew up in foggy Daly City (with her extended Filipino -
Chinese family). She was a major nerd at Highlands Christian Academy in
San Bruno and Saint Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco. At the age
of 17, she left the Bay Area to enroll in New York University's College
of Arts and Science (premed for a day) and Tisch School of the Arts,
double majoring in Psychology and Drama (she thought she might become a
psychologist/ family therapist/ educational therapist/ drama therapist,
etc.) While in New York, she was a Resident's Assistant, babysitter/
nanny, Abercrombie and Fitch brand rep (sigh, it's true), teacher's
assistant, then post school: restaurant hostess/ coat check girl/
waitress-for-a-day, costume design assistant, dancer in a modern dance
company, temp (I was a badass on Power Point), events coordinator for
NYU/ TSOA, stage manager, and occasionally actor (sometimes the jobs
would overlap 3 or 4 at a time). She totally loved New York City
(living in Manhattan and Brooklyn: Windsor Terrace and Park Slope) and
thought she would never leave.
She eventually decided to embrace the acting habit that she was trying to kick and train further. She chose to attend UCSD/ La Jolla Playhouse (because of the beach) and received her MFA in Acting (and never really hung out at the beach).
After graduation, she gradually moved to Los Angeles (hating it) to be a professional actor and founded a theatre company (Chalk Rep). Currently, you can see her in a few commercials, sometimes you can see her in a play, and occasionally you can see her in TV shows. Sometimes she tutors math and sciences. But mostly she loves to be at home in Atwater Village. She now loves LA.
She has two cats (Panther Bo Jangles Robinson and Benjamin Kitten) and two dogs (Luna and Harper) plus one (Bella, who belongs to her sister, Dr. Chang).
She is currently studying the cello (adding to the other instruments she loves and plays poorly) and hopes to learn Mandarin Chinese someday so that Dan Yin doesn't have to keep translating.
She eventually decided to embrace the acting habit that she was trying to kick and train further. She chose to attend UCSD/ La Jolla Playhouse (because of the beach) and received her MFA in Acting (and never really hung out at the beach).
After graduation, she gradually moved to Los Angeles (hating it) to be a professional actor and founded a theatre company (Chalk Rep). Currently, you can see her in a few commercials, sometimes you can see her in a play, and occasionally you can see her in TV shows. Sometimes she tutors math and sciences. But mostly she loves to be at home in Atwater Village. She now loves LA.
She has two cats (Panther Bo Jangles Robinson and Benjamin Kitten) and two dogs (Luna and Harper) plus one (Bella, who belongs to her sister, Dr. Chang).
She is currently studying the cello (adding to the other instruments she loves and plays poorly) and hopes to learn Mandarin Chinese someday so that Dan Yin doesn't have to keep translating.
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