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Keelan Leyser is one of the UK's premier illusionist having performed all over the world for some of the most prestigious companies, television shows and events. Keelan has won many major awards for his skills in magic and dance including winning the highest award a magician can win in the UK - The British Magical Grand Prix Champion 2007. He also is the British Magical Champion of General Magic 2007, former British Junior Magical Champion, Home Counties Champion, Magic Circle's Young Magician of the Year finalist and Close up Magician of the Year. In 2005 Keelan also won first place the cabaret section of UK Dance Championships for Modern Jive as well as 3rd place in the advanced modern Jive section in the Britrock national Jive Championships. Keelan will soon represent his country at the World Championships of Magic. Keelan and Charlotte own and run one of Europe largest online magic shops called MagicTricks.co.uk, MagicTricks Ltd, which provides the ultimate store for magicians and magic lovers across the world. They also have their own brand of Magic Tricks, Magic Sets and Magic Kits for Children called MagicTricksJunior.co.uk . These tricks have been created especialy to make amazing magic easy. Keelan has been performing regularly on television since his was 12 years old when he was in an advertisement for a magic set. Since then his broadcast experience includes This Morning with Richard and Judy; Surprise, Surprise with Cilla Black; Blue Peter, AM Live on Living, Sky One and Sky News and many times on Children’s BBC programmes. In 1995 Keelan had a half an hour BBC 1 documentary made about his life called 'The Magical World of Keelan Leyser' which was awarded best children’s programme by the Daily Mail. Keelan then went on to work as the resident magician on Nickelodeon and created two series for them called ‘Magic’. More recently Keelan was one of the main performers on the 10 part TV series called 'Playing Tricks which has been aired many times on many British and Interntational TV channels. Keelan can be seen regularly on ITV’s This Morning giving his views on psychics, body language and magic. Keelan has created magic effects for major companies including Wrigley's, Coca-Cola, Fanta, Hitachi and Start-rite to name a few and was also magical consultant to the BAFTA awarding BBC 1 show 'Dick and Dom in da Bungalow' for all three series. Away from the stage Keelan has a degree in Economics from University College London and with colleague Dr David Lewis, Keelan has lectured and provided workshops at conferences for many fortune 500 companies including, I.B.M., Microsoft, Investors in People, NTL and many others. They use sophisticated electronic and magical effects together with active audience participation to communicate and make unforgettable the key business ideas and practical, take away, techniques – mostly derived from their own original research – they demonstrate. In 2006 Keelan and his partner Charlotte toured the UK with their quick change magic illusion show with the legendary Basil Brush covering a massive 110 theatre performances all over the UK and Ireland. In 2007 Keelan and Charlotte have been headlining with their full stage show literally all over the world, as The Quick Change Dance Illusionists, onboard the stunning Star and Sea Princess Cruise ships and the NCL Jewel for Norwegian Cruise lines. In Feb 2008 Keelan and Charlotte flew back from the Caribbean for four performances in the 3500 seater Blackpool Opera house where they are one of the stars of 'The Worlds Greatest Magicians', a show which included the greatest names in magic. Keelan and Charlotte were honoured to be included in such an amazing line up! At the end of 2008 Keelan and Charlotte consulted and starred in a commercial for Rexona 'Sure' Deodorant for Unilever. The advert utilised their quick change magic and is shown in many countries accross the world. In 2009 Keelan and Charlotte's Quick Change Act has taken them to all parts of India over 10 times, with performances for Unilever, Vodaphone, One Alliance, Mtv. They also performed 4 shows in Cairo Egypt, in the first large scale magic show ever to be shown in Egypt. This show was a total sell out with audiences of over 3000 per show. They have also been to Malaysia and very recently Rome spreading their quick change magic across the globe. |
