JIM STEINMEYER

Jim also created special illusions for Siegfried and Roy, Harry Blackstone Jr., Orson Welles, Lance Burton, and Ricky Jay. His inventions represent hundreds of popular and game-changing mysteries featured around the world... From 2018 to 2020, Jim served as President of the Academy of Magical Arts, the club at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, and served on the Board of Directors for seven years. There, he rewrote, designed and produced the new edition of the Houdini Séance, the immersive show, which re-opened in 2022. He's received numerous industry awards, including the Literary Fellowship and Creative Fellowship from the AMA, the Genii Award, the FISM Award, the Devant Award from the Magic Circle, and the L.A. Theater Drama Critics Award. In 2020 he received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Alan Slaight Foundation in Canada. That same year, he was profiled on the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine: "How a Legendary Magician Builds the World's Greatest Illusions."

Primary location: Burbank United States