Yvette Lee Bowser

Yvette Denise Lee Bowser (born June 9, 1965) is an American television writer and producer. She is perhaps best known for writing and producing "Half & Half", "Living Single", and "A Different World". With "Living Single," she became the first African-American woman to develop her own prime-time series.Gregory, Deborah. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n8_v25/ai_15953439 "Yvette Lee Bowser: the sister who took 'Living Single' straight to the top! - African American television producer,"] "Essence", Dec. 1994]

While still working as Yvette Denise Lee, Bowser started on "A Different World" in 1987 as one of a number of apprentices, rising in prominence in the production company over the years and eventually becoming producer by the 1991-92 season.Brown, Malaika. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1546/is_n2_v10/ai_16883738 Sisterhood televised: Yvette Lee Bowser and the voices she listens to - creator and executive producer of the TV show, 'Living Single,'] "American Visions", April-May, 1995] She left that show to take a position with "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper".

Bowser created her own company, Sister Lee Productions, which produced or co-produced her later shows, "Living Single" and "Half & Half". She has said in various interviews that she draws many of her characters and plots from personal experiences: "I just basically rip pages out of my diary to tell stories on TV." In the case of "Half & Half", for example, the writer based the characters Mona and Dee-Dee on herself and an older half-sister, and plot ideas came from her experience as the youngest child in a blended family.Walker, Nicole. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_11_105/ai_114286700 Two sisters, two different moms—TV's 'half & half' takes a fresh look at the blended black family] (cover story), "Jet", March 15, 2004]

Yvette Denise Lee married producer Kyle Bowser in 1994. The two worked together on "Living Single", "Half & Half", and "For Your Love".Holmes, Kristin E. [http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/15925994.htm The Bible's fresh voice] , "Philadelphia Inquirer", Nov. 4, 2006] She graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1983 where she attended with Holly Robinson, who was apart of the Hangin' with Mr. Cooper cast who she had a position in, then attended Stanford University where, in 1986, she pledged the Xi Beta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

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* [http://us.dd.imdb.com/name/nm0101465/ Yvette Lee Bowser at IMDb]