Lamar Richardson(II)

Lamar Richardson is a 2x Tony Award®-winning producer and award-winning actor. In 2024, he made history as the youngest Black producer to win two Tony Awards® in one night for his work as a Co-Producer on Merrily We Roll Along (Best Revival of a Musical) and Appropriate (Best Revival of a Play). Richardson was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina as the son of Antiguan parents. In 2015, he received his B.A. from Columbia University. Shortly thereafter, Phylicia Rashad discovered Richardson and cast him as 'Sylvester' in her 2016 production of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Mark Taper Forum. Most recently, he has appeared on screen in episodes of New York - Unité spéciale (1999), Blue Bloods (2010), FBI (2018), and New Amsterdam (2018). He will next be seen in Amazon's Complicités (2025) and Richard Lawson's Black Terror, which is co-produced with Tina Knowles-Lawson. On Broadway, Richardson made his debut as a Co-Producer of the Fall 2022 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman starring Wendell Pierce, Sharon D. Clarke, and Andre de Shields. Other Broadway producing credits include New York, New York, The Wiz (starring Wayne Brady and Deborah Cox), Gypsy (starring Audra McDonald), Othello (starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal), and Smash (produced alongside Bob Greenblatt, Neil Meron and Steven Spielberg). Richardson made his film producing debut as a Co-Producer of Bleecker Street's 2024 comedy, The Fabulous Four, starring Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and Megan Mullally. In March 2023, Richardson produced and starred in a staged reading of Afrika Brown's The Fight as a part of The Apollo Salon Series. He is the CEO of Ivy Lion Productions and was also the recipient of Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey's 2022 Front Row Productions Fellowship at Columbia University. Richardson is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity Association, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.