Scott Penrose
Scott is Vice-Chairman of the Magic Circle and a former winner of Stage Magician of the Year.
He works in film, on television and on stage, where he designs and creates illusions, consults with creative teams in the creation of magic, and trains and advises performing talent.
Recently Scott has worked with Cirque de Soleil, and tutored Woody Allen and Catherine Zeta Jones amongst many others.
For more information on Scott and his work please visit www.stagemagician.com
RECENT WORK INCLUDES
| Cirque 2007 (working title, opens April 2007) | Cirque De Soleil | Design of illusions and magical effects |
| Scoop | Woody Allen | Designed illusion; taught magic to Woody Allen |
| Death Defying Acts (release April 2007) | Zephyr Films | Screenplay consultant for historical accuracy; taught magic to Catherine Zeta Jones and Guy Pearce |
| Mitchell and Webb: The Magicians (release April 2007) | Universal Pictures | Taught magic to Mitchell and Webb; designed and built illusions including guillotine illusion and three levitation sequences; appeared in movie. |
| Quest | CNN | Quest for Magic: mentored Richard Quest and taught him a live magic routine, including a sawing in half. |
| Freaky | Channel Four | Magic consultant: conceived and realised programme content for eight-part half hour magic series. |
| The Money Programme | BBC | Magic consultancy and appearance |
| Jonathan Creek | BBC | Magic consultant. |
| The Original Chinese Conjuror | Almeida Theatre | Designed and built illusions. |
| Matthew Herbert Big Band | World tour | Designed and built illusions. |
| The Magic of Jesus | Objective Productions/ Channel Four | Turned water into wine; made the blind see; feeding the five thousand; various other New Testament inspired illusions. |
| Tricks from the Bible | Objective Productions/ Channel Four | Turned sticks in to snakes; various other Old Testament inspired illusions. |
| All Star Talent Show | Endemol | Taught Julian Clary to saw Andy Peters in half; series magical consultant; created illusions for celebrities to perform. |
| The History of Magic | BBC | Historical consultant; designed, built and performed a number of magical effects and illusions. |
| Annual "Crop Over" concert, Barbados | Virgin Atlantic | Created illusion for performance in front of 30,000 people. |
| Dracula | Centreline Productions | Dracula vanishing in a cloud of smoke, a cremation illusion, impalement, a beheading and appearances and disappearances in coffins. |
| Undercover Magic | Sky One | Magic consultant |
| Max Magic | Sky One | Conceived episodes and magic consultant. |
| The Illusionist | Still King Pictures | Magic consultant |
| Help | BBC | Magic consultant; taught sleight of hand to Paul Whitehouse |
| Dirty Tricks | Channel Four | Magic consultant; designed and built illusions. |
| The Master and Margarita | Chichester Festival Theatre | Illusion Designer: design of a disembodied living head on a silver salver. |
| Interactive exhibit | De la Warr Pavilion | Worked with performance artists Jonathan Allen and Aura Satz. |
| Time | BBC | Consultant and performer. |
| Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens | Blue Box Entertainment | Designed illusion and magic tricks for performers. |
| Late Tate | Tate Britain | Worked with performance artist Jonathan Allen. Cremated an audience member alive on stage! |
| The Slammer | BBC Children | Performance of sawing in half for the top rated BBC children's show. |
| Aladdin | First Family Entertainment | Created and supplied illusions and small magic for two productions of Aladdin. |
| Comedy of Errors | Bell Shakespeare Company | Trained doves for the UK tour. |
| Hott Fuzz |
| Magical consultant. |
| Barber of Seville | Savoy Opera | Created knife throwing sequence. |
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