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Keith Lawson is 30-year veteran in the entertainment industry. His resume includes music video and commercial production, music and entertainment management, and film and TV production. He has overseen production of music videos and video press-kits for artists including EnVogue, Shabba Ranks, Sounds of Blackness, TLC, Jon Lucien, S.O.S. Band and many others.
In addition to being Founder & Creative Director of Spartacus Media, Keith is the former Sr. Vice President of Brand Solutions at BET Networks/ Paramount Global. Also, as former Executive Producer of Prime-Time Entertainment at BET, he was responsible for numerous award-winning productions including “Turnstyle” and “NYLA”. He launched the careers of LAZ ALONSO (“The Boys” – Amazon Prime and various), LAMORNE MORRIS (“The New Girl” – FOX), ANANDA LEWIS (“The Ananda Lewis Show”- King World, “While You Were Out” – TLC, MTV, various) and AL SHEARER (“Hits From The Street”, “Punk’D”). Keith was also responsible for developing various other original programs including “Turnstyle”, “UnReal”, “Made You Look”, Music Inside Out” and others.
Keith has earned more than twenty-five Telly Awards for commercial design and production, a Classic Telly for design and production, BDA design awards, a Rosebud Film Award nomination for film short, NAMIC Visionary Award, Cable Positive POP Award, as well as nominations for NAACP Award, SHINE Awards.
Keith is a published author and has written four original screenplays. Along with Eric Watson, he created and produced the reality show “Committed: The Christies” which created the format of the billion dollar “Basketball Wives” reality show format.
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    Finding Hero2025
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College
University Of Maryland, College Park
Mechanical Engineering, General
19821988
High School
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Engineering
19791982
Birth Date
October 19, 1964
Nickname
Spartacus
Birth City
Baltimore
Current City
Washington, DC
Hometown
Washington, DC
Height
6'2"
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
Black
Eye Color
Brown
Zodiac Sign
Libra
Married To
Divorced
Children
Kyle and Kristopher Lawson
Former Senior Vice President for Brand Solutions for Paramount/ BET. Published author, "The Man Behind the Curtain", Executive producer for multiple albums including Born Jamericans and Phillip Doc Martin. Multiple TV production awards winner (Telly, BDA, NAMIC, Rosebud Film Award) NAACP Nomination for mental health platform The SonRise Project. Keith earned a full academic scholarship to University of Maryland to study Mechanical Engineering before changing careers to TV and Film. Keith is also a professional VoiceOver artist, and has recorded voiceovers for various TV, radio, and commercial projects.
"Whatever you do in life make it bigger than yourself"
"There is no real success without failure. Fail as spectacularly as you can and then succeed even more spectacularly"
"We all live two lives, the second one begins when you realize you only have one"
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