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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 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 the Trouble, Challenge and FTN 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. Keelan studied at University College London, has a degree in philosophy and economics. In 1999, whilst still an undergraduate student, he was part of a team that beat off competition from Price Waterhouse Coopers, MBA students and major technology firms to win a London Business School Award for the best new business venture. 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 Airtours. 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 they own original research – they demonstrate. Keelan is a skilled graphic designer/animator and video editor who uses his talents to create powerful and attention grabbing demonstrations to illustrate and underscore the practical ideas and personal insights provided during the duo’s conference appearances. Keelan is co-owner of Video Unlimited, a highly successful digital video animation production house that creates some stunning graphical and chroma keying effects. When this is combined with his magical expertise you get Key FX an interactive digital magic environment where literally anything can happen. Keelan has produced and featured in many commercial tutorial DVD's, the titles 'Tango-Jive with Attitude' and 'Flirting with Magic' were best sellers in 2004/2005 respectively. Keelan wrte directed and produced Tariq Knight's ‘Sick Tricks’ soon to be released by Prism Leisure Ltd who bought the exclusive rights to the productio in a 5 year deal. Keelan also owns arguably the UK's largest stock of unique magical illusions for exhibitions, television and shows. In 2006 Keelan and his partner Charlotte toured the UK with their quick change illusion show with the legendary Basil Brush covering a massive 110 theatre performances all over the UK and Ireland. |
