Kyle Bowser, Esq.
Board Chair
Education and Experience
For nearly three decades, Kyle Bowser has worked as an entertainment industry executive. His experience spans the areas of film, television, music, theater, radio, and new media. This vocational variety has provided him with unique insight into the intersecting parameters of the arts, culture, business development, and emerging technologies
Mr. Bowser’s career began with his involvement with Philadelphia International Records during the label’s celebrated heyday of multiplatinum releases. Next, at NFL Films, Mr. Bowser assisted in the distribution of the company’s classic football highlight films. As the head of marketing, Bowser promoted concerts, boxing, and CBA basketball for the former
6000 seat MLK Arena, in Philadelphia. As Executive Director of his family owned and operated New Uptown Theater and Entertainment Center, Bowser managed the 2000 seat theater and four-floor private nightclub for five years. For two more years, at Harrah’s Marina Hotel Casino in Atlantic City, Mr. Bowser managed the hotel entertainment venues and its sound and lighting technicians.
Then with the Music Fair Group, Mr. Bowser produced special events in two 3,000-seat theaters-in-the-round, located in New York and Philadelphia. Simultaneously, he hosted a community affairs talk show on the #1 ranked WUSL/Power 99 Radio, in Philadelphia.
Bowser’sinvolvement in television began with NBC Business Affairsin New York City. He later moved to Los Angeles to join Fox, Inc., where he developed television programming of multiple genres and creatively managed primetime fare aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company. Hit shows under Bowser’s purview included In Living Color, Roc, and Shaky Ground. He next served as Director of Creative Affairs for HBO Independent Productions. There, Bowser developed new programs and creatively supervised sitcoms Martin and Roc, both of which aired on Fox.
This steady career progression led Kyle Bowser to the founding of Res Ipsa Media, Inc., a multi-media production company that has garnered development deals with Warner Bros., Home Box Office, and 3 Arts Entertainment. The company has developed and/or produced an array of multimedia projects, including film projects A Line in the Sand (Showtime); For One Night (Lifetime); the sitcom series, The Weekenders (Comedy Central); For Your Love (NBC); the variety series, Midnight Mac (HBO); Kevin Hart’s Super Bowl Halftime House Party (Facebook Live); the E! Super Bowl special (E!); the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration (Gospel Music Channel); the Emmy nominated documentary Fritz Pollard: A Forgotten Man (NFL Network); Sunday Dinner (Cooking Channel); two sitcom pilots: ColorTV (Fox) and The Thing About Family (NBC); the NAMIC Vision Awards (Starz!); the reality drama, Trial By Jury (UPN and theatrically); the Living Single Soundtrack (Warner Bros. Records); and the successful stage productions, Talk Show Live and Iyanla Vanzant: ThisIs Your Life. His firm has produced event-based programming for iN Demand pay-per-view network and provided music supervision for the hit sitcom Half & Half (UPN). Mr. Bowser has been retained to procure new business and bookings for two legendary venues – the 17,000-seat Forum and the 500-seat B.B. King’s Blues Club. Under his shingle, PROactive CONsulting & Management, Bowser provides strategic planning and counsel for several entertainment industry artists and firms.
Bowser also enjoyed the distinguished honor to serve as Executive Producer of the hugely impactful, Inspired By…The Bible Experience, a fully dramatized, 98-hour long, audio Bible featuring an all-star cast of over 400 actors, musicians, athletes, clergy, and other noteworthy personalities.
As Senior Vice President, NAACP Hollywood Bureau, Kyle Bowser advanced the organization’s profile and impact, with efforts to influence the media and entertainment industries toward equitable opportunity and outcomes. Further, Bowser galvanized the vast community of mass media storytellers to generate narratives that produce healthy psychosocial perceptions and behaviors, and served as Executive Producer of the annual NAACP Image Awards, broadcast live across one dozen media platforms.
A native of Philadelphia, PA, Kyle Bowser received his Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University in Radio/Television and Film Communications. Support and generosity of Bill Cosby permitted Mr. Bowser to earn his Juris Doctor degree from Widener University School of Law. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar Associations. Bowser is a member of the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) – for whom he founded the annual Vision Awards and received its coveted Legacy Award. Bowser is also a Board member of the NFL affiliated Fritz Pollard Alliance, and the HollyRod Foundation. Kyle Bowser is married to Yvette Lee Bowser, the creator and/or Executive Producer of the hit series Unprisoned (Hulu); Dear White People (Netflix); Black-ish (ABC); Half & Half (UPN); For Your Love (NBC/The WB); and Living Single (Fox). The couple lives in Los Angeles with sons, Evan and Drew.
