Ben Hart

Ben is a magician and illusion designer. He invents special effects for theatre, film and television. He is a Gold Star Member of the Inner Magic Circle and was The Magic Circle’s Young Magician of the Year in 2007. He appears regularly on television and live onstage performing his original magic inventions.

Film and Television Magic design work includes Not Going Out (BBC), Killer Magic (BBC); Life Hacks Hoax (BBC); Life Hacks: The Voice (BBC), Now You See it (BBC); Partners in Rhyme (BBC); Britain’s Got Talent (ITV), The One Show (BBC), Every Trick in the Book (BBC), Trick Artist; (Channel 4), The Egg Trick (starring Ian McKellen); Magic Ian; Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Stand up for Cancer; BBC Click and RTS.

Theatre consultancy work includes: I and You (Hampstead Theatre), A Christmas Carol (RSC); The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep), 1000 Splendid Suns (Birmingham Rep), The Exorcist (Birmingham Rep and West End); Dracula (Touring Consortium Uk Tour); Woyzeck (The Old Vic); Fanny and Alexander (The Old Vic); Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End); WILD (Hampstead); Impossible (West End 2015/16 and U.K/international tour 2017); The Nutshell (Uk and Australian Tour), Belief? (Uk and Australian tour), The Vanishing Boy(Objective); Dr Faustus (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Outsider (UK/international tour); The Arthur Conan Doyle Appreciation Society (Traverse); Paul Merton “Out of my Head” (West End and UK Tour), Fatherland (The Gate); Stagefright (Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds) and Darker Shores (Hampstead).