Written By October/November 2009

Pioneers of New Media share trail secrets. Go Web, young Woman Livier didn’t have groundbreaking plans when she first began writing her series, Ylse. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, raised there and in California, she’s been a working actress since age 15. Upon approaching 30, she knew it was only a mat- ter of time before acting jobs became less plentiful. Instead of getting bitter, she got busier. Livier had always wanted to try writing, so after three years on Showtime’s Resurrection Blvd., she applied her downtime to learning the craft. “I went to Writers Bootcamp, UCLA extension courses, and Robert McKee seminars and made my rounds, trying to absorb all of it,” she says while ensconced in a booth at Du- par’s at the Farmers Market. Her first intention was to write a television pilot. The script’s star, Ylse, would be an actress who hosts a tiny cable television Ruth Livier created Ylse first as a TV pilot but soon realized that her show about a not-so-politically correct Latina journalist didn’t stand a chance on network TV. Ylse’s second season premiered September 2009 with 3,000 unique views.

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