Meet Kai
Kai Bowe's World
In the Beginning...
Kai Bowe has been a creative force in TV and film for over 30 years. At just 16, she was a summer intern on Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and continued working on feature films, on her journey from Production Assistant to Assistant Director...complete with a cameo or two!
After graduating from UCLA and Howard University School of Law, Kai returned to her filmmaking roots. She honed her screenwriting skills as the WGA Trainee for The X-Files and had the honor of having a character named after her by industry icon, Frank Spotnitz.
Seeing the Future...
As someone who foresaw the explosion of reality and unscripted TV, Kai joined the genre near its inception, casting NBC’s Emmy-winning Starting Over and producing for some of the most successful unscripted franchises, including America’s Next Top Model and Project Runway.
Kai was Supervising Producer for the Emmy-nominated LA Burning (A&E) and Emmy-winning Red Table Talk (Facebook), and Co-EP of the Emmy-winning Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath (A&E). She was EP/Showrunner of Resist (a documentary series that successfully thwarted LA County’s plan to fund two new jails), the Emmy-nominated, Peabody-winning We Have to Talk About Cosby (Showtime), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Fight the Power ( History) and the award-winning Ferguson Rises (PBS).
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Onwards and Upwards...
Kai currently serves as the Director of Current Programming, Unscripted for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network where she spear-heads premium, star-studded, formats and docu-series.
As a celebrated Showrunner, Executive Producer and Network Executive, Kai Bowe is a frequent contributor on industry panels and is sought after for inspirational and career-enhancing workshops.
