Writer and producer, Yvonne King, is a native New Yorker born and raised in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Her career in entertainment began at Sesame Workshop where she joined the award-winning show, Sesame Street and went on to
work on various projects with the workshop including international new project development.  She followed that with a stint on the popular children’s game show, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and worked on programs which aired on The History Channel and National Geographic Television. She made the move to daytime talk as associate producer, on-air promotion for The Rosie O’Donnell Show.  Yvonne then joined the start-up Oxygen Network as a writer and producer for SheCommerce, a talk show focused on shopping and style. In 2002, Yvonne relocated to Los Angeles. She landed at E! Networks, where she was a producer at Style and a writer/producer/editor for E!’s rapidly expanding international network.

In 2004, she left E! to pursue a Master in Professional Writing at the University of Southern California and completed her degree in 2007. While at USC, she was the 2004 recipient of the Eugenia D. Van Lowe Fellowship, a merit scholarship awarded to minority students whose studies emphasize television writing.

Yvonne produced the dramatic short film, Slice of Water with Madison Films in which three intimate vignettes reveal special moments that share a common theme, the transforming element of water. Her latest project is a comedic book titled, “Why Are You Still Here? When He’s Just Too Into You,” a compilation of real life anecdotes about the guys women can't get rid of no matter how hard they try. To learn more or submit a story, go to www.whyareyoustillhere.net.

Yvonne has written two original screenplays; Loveline, a romantic comedy for
which she was a finalist in the 2009 Guy A. Hanks and Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program established by Bill and Camille Cosby and The Abolition of Sex, a female buddy relationship comedy (co-written by Kellie Madison). Her other work includes a television spec of The O.C., and an original one-hour drama pilot titled Bushwick.