Paul Zenon
Paul Zenon was born in England on June 29th, 1964 and is the Magician. At the age of 60, Paul Zenon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Born Paul Collins on June 29, 1964) is an English stage and television magician, comedian, writer, and pundit.
He has appeared on numerous television shows and is a skeptic with strong views on psychic abilities and the paranormal.
He is the author of three published books on magic, proposal bets, and practical jokes, as well as an expert on Magic and magicians, Variety, and unusual entertainments.
The 'War Magician' covers magician, escape artist, and Spiritualist debunker Harry Houdini, fake Chinese magician Chung Ling Soo, faux Chinese magician Chung Ling Soo.'
Zenon is a member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star status, as well as the 2017 Sir Ken Dodd Comedy Award, which was also presented to him by the man himself on stage at the Blackpool Opera House in front of an audience of three and a half thousand people.
Career
Throughout his teenage years, Zenon spent the summer holidays working in the Blackpool magic and joke shop 'The House of Secrets' which was run by Bill Thompson, who became his friend and mentor. His solo theatre piece 'Linking Rings' covers this story, together with the parallel one of Houdini and his righthand man Jim Collins, his family namesake. 'Linking Rings' has been performed at Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe Festivals with additional short seasons at Jermyn Street Theatre in London's West End, The Secret Cellar (by Waterloo Vaults), and a performance at the 2017 Blackpool Magicians' Convention.
After early performances at seaside hotels, with several dates supporting rock band Hawkwind on tour and being the lead singer in Blackpool band Crackousrockanroll, at the age of 19 Zenon travelled around Europe as a street performer, performing magic and fire-eating and supplementing his income with fortune-telling. On his return to the UK, he began performing in summer seasons and comedy clubs. He went on to host tours for the British, UN and US Forces in locations including Germany, Gibraltar, Benbecula, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Belize, Argentina, the Falkland and Ascension Islands and on board the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible.
Zenon has performed and presented at corporate events worldwide since the early eighties and more recently has been a regular performer at international Arts and Fringe Festivals including Edinburgh, Brighton, London, Dublin, Cork, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland, both as guest performer and with his own solo shows, 'Turning Tricks', 'Off the Street, On the Road', 'Cabinet of Curiosities' 'Linking Rings' and 'Paul Zenon's Hellfire Club', 'Lounge Wizard' and 'Linking Rings'. Since its inception in 2003, he has been a long-term regular cast member and Ringmaster in the Olivier award-winning New Variety show 'La Clique' and its spin-off production 'La Soiree'.
Since 1980, Zenon has appeared on television as performer, presenter and pundit, including a Royal Command Performance, four one-man 'specials' on Channel 4 and ITV, and as a regular Dictionary Corner guest on Channel 4's 'Countdown, with around 120 appearances to date.
He is a Member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star status. He is the author of three books. In 2012, Zenon collaborated with cult comic book artist Vince Ray to produce a custom deck of playing cards: the Z-Ray Deck, printed by the United States Playing Card Company, as part of their 'Bicycle' brand.
Zenon has given live talks, including TedX Salford, Centre for Inquiry, Goldsmiths, University of London, Ratio Conference Bulgaria, and in 2014 he hosted the QED Conference in Manchester.
In parallel with his career in magic and comedy, Zenon has also worked as an actor; in addition to his early roles in Tricky Business on Children's BBC, he has made cameo appearances in short films, and has written, produced and performed his first one-man stage drama, 'Linking Rings', at Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals which received 5 star reviews from The Edinburgh Evening News, The List and FringeReview. In 2016, Zenon made his one-man West End debut in 'Linking Rings' at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London.
In 2015, he was presented with the Carlton Award for Comedy at a ceremony at The Magic Circle's London headquarters. In 2017, while MCing the gala show of the Blackpool Magicians' Convention at the Opera House, Paul was presented with the Sir Ken Dodd Comedy Award, by Ken Dodd himself.