‘Living Single’ Creator Yvette Lee Bowser Set For WGA West’s Top TV Honor

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The Writers Guild of America West has penciled in Living Single creator-showrunner Yvette Lee Bowser for its 2023 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing Achievement.

She will receive the career honor, which is presented to a WGA member who has “advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer,” at the 75th annual WGA Awards on March 5.

A 35-year guild member with more than 600 hours of TV to her credit, Bowser began her career as an apprentice writer on NBC’s Cosby Show spinoff series A Different World, writing 25 episodes over five years.

After a run with ABC’s Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper in the early ’90s, Bowser – at age 27 – became the first Black female show creator with her groundbreaking Fox sitcom Living Single.