LaMar Baylor
Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway
LaMar currently serves as Programs & Community Engagement Manager at Conga Kids in LA. Before Covid-19, he performed in Disney’s “The Lion King” on Broadway. His dance career began in Camden, NJ, and led him to perform alongside Patti LaBelle, Ben Vereen, Danny Glover, Wynton Marsalis, and Jill Scott where he was the Lead Male Dancer in her Directorial Debut “Slide”. In 2007, LaMar played the Lead Male Dancer in the production of “My Brotha Marvin” [the Marvin Gaye story] directed by Zeola Gaye.
LaMar was a member of the Philadelphia Dance Company, known as PHILADANCO! for five years and is the Associate Artistic Director of Waheed Works. LaMar has performed works by choreographers such as Garth Fagan (Tony Award Winner), Christopher L. Huggins, George Faison (Tony Award Winner), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (MacArthur Award Winner), Ronald K. Brown (Bessie Award Winner), Rennie Harris (Bessie Award Winner), Scott Jovovich, Abdur-Rahim Jackson, and Hope Boykin (Two time Bessie Award Winner). He is a former Principal Dancer/Assistant Rehearsal Director with Eleone Dance Theater and the Rebecca Davis Dance Company.
LaMar holds a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of the Arts. He is currently pursuing his Masters of Science in Arts Administration at Drexel University. LaMar first traveled to Rwanda in December 2011 with a project run by Rebecca Davis Dance Company. He returned to Rwanda in 2013, 2016 (with Misty Copeland), 2019 (to choreography for the Ubumuntu Arts Festival), and in 2021 (with Kirven Douthit-Boyd).