David Penn (magician)
David Penn is a corporate English magician from Northampton. He has been seen in the UK on four major TV series including The Sorcerer's Apprentice on BBC1,[1] The Sorcerer's Apprentice Extra on BBC2, Freaky on Channel 4 and Astounding Celebrities on ITV1 . He reached the live semi -finals of Britain's Got Talent on ITV1. [2] He has been described in the Daily Telegraph as "one of the country's leading illusionists".[3]
Penn became interested in magic after his grandfather showed him a trick that involved pulling coins from behind his ear.[2]
He is known amongst magicians for Refraction, his re-working of the Ted Lesley wine-glass bending effect and his coin bending effect Coinvexed. He also appears every other week with Sean Haydon on a show called the Wizard Product Review (known for its occasional controversy) - the World's largest online magic review show which obtains around 5,000 YouTube views every week.
Awards
David was The Magic Circle Close-Up Magician Of The Year 1994 and in 1995 he was awarded the Zina Bennett Cup by the British Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians for Close-Up Magic.
References
- ↑ "Sorcerer's Apprentice : Episode 6". CBBC. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- 1 2 Savage, Wayne (25 April 2014). "Chelmsford: Britain’s Got Talent magician David Penn and the other stars of Champions of Magic on their Civic Theatre show". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ Riley-Smith, Ben (24 June 2013). "Have online speculators cracked Dynamo's levitation trick?". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 July 2014.