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.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.
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.Through Sister Lee Productions, Bowser is showrunner for the critically acclaimed Netflix series Dear White People.