OUR TEAM

Lamar Richardson (CEO)

Lamar Richardson is a 2x Tony Award®-winning theater, film, and television producer focused on championing underrepresented voices and ushering in culturally resonant stories across stage and screen. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina as the son of Antiguan parents, he received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2015. Trained as an actor, Richardson was discovered by Phylicia Rashad, through world-renowned Acting Coach Susan Batson, who cast him as 'Sylvester' in her 2016 production of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Mark Taper Forum. He is the CEO of Ivy Lion Productions, an independent banner aimed at producing prestige artist-driven, commercially ambitious projects targeting new, diverse audiences. On Broadway, Richardson made his Lead Producer debut with the critically acclaimed Fall 2025 revival of Ragtime, produced in association with Lincoln Center Theater. His producorial debut was as a Co-Producer of the Fall 2022 revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman starring Wendell Pierce, Sharon D. Clarke, and André De Shields. Other Broadway co-producing credits include New York, New York, The Wiz, Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff’s Merrily We Roll Along (Tony Award®), Sarah Paulson’s Appropriate (Tony Award®), Audra McDonald’s Gypsy, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Othello, and Smash. He also made his UK debut as a Co-Producer of the Fall 2025 production of The Hunger Games: On Stage at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre. 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 2024, he announced Ivy Lion’s television slate, which includes projects with star name attachment, and signed with Zero Gravity Management. Richardson was also the recipient of Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey's 2022 Front Row Productions Fellowship at Columbia University. Other education includes studies at Duke University and study abroad at Oxford University. 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. Other select acting credits include Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Blue Bloods, FBI, New Amsterdam, and Amazon’s The Better Sister. Richardson is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity Association, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Zaire Julion-Richardson (Co-Founder)

Zaire co-founded Ivy Lion in 2021 after a wealth of industry experience and expertise. She was an analyst at NBCUniversal, a TV Talent Assistant at ICM Partners, and she worked in development & production at Courtney Kemp’s production company, End of Episode, where she worked on shows such as POWER on Starz and ABC’s Get Christie Love pilot. She was 1 of 12 participants in Diverse Representation’s Black Entertainment Executives Pipeline Program. Zaire obtained her MBA from Columbia Business School and B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.