PARTIAL BIOGRAPHY
	Ben Robinson

TV/VIDEO/DVD/CD: Maury Halloween special (NBC-TV), MTV's Big Show, All My Children, The Today Show, Talk Soup, The Late Show (FOX), Good Morning New York, Latenight with David Letterman (Viewer Mail), The Deana Show and many appearances as TV spokesperson for AMEX Travelers Cheques. Commercials for Levis 501 Jeans, VH 1, Bonnie Raitt albums, A&P Stores and Philip Morris cigarettes. CD: Ben Robinson on Synchronicity, Video: Ben Robinson Live at China Club, Ben Robinson Live in Central Park, DVD: Ben Robinson Live at Kafe AtmoZphere.

Film: The Lemon Sisters (1989, directed by Joyce Chopra starring Diane Keaton), Steps (1985, directed by Stephen Clarendon).

Stage: Original productions: Out Of Order (Music-Theater Group/ Stockbridge, MA), After Magic? (Theatreclub Funambules/New York), Psychodyssey (appearances nationally), Ghost: An Art Rock 'n Roll Circus (LMCC Buskers Fare, New York, commissioned gala opener), Featured Artist for Music-Theatre Group' Expect the Unexpected (2003), Host of Lincoln Center's Downtown Comes Uptown (1993, 1994), opening act and MC for rock , jazz & alternative bands from New York to Seattle to Atlanta including: October Project, The Jazz Mandolin Project, Radiohead, Rebecca Moore/Prevention of Blindness, HipBone Records, The Round Band, Joe Clay, The Skaflaws, Matt Turk, Garbage and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe´. Over 7500 performances of his acts: Out Of Order, Mr. Mutilation & the bullet catch.

Consultant: The Tempest (Guthrie Theatre, MN), Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, The Frankenstein Musical Have I Got a Girl For You (Off B'way), The Hunger Artist (Off-Broadway Obie Award, directed by MacArthur "genius award" recipient Martha Clarke), Hershey Park amphitheatre dance show, The Children's Theatre of Massachusetts,The Learning Channel's 1998 three-part series Mysteries of Magic,The Discovery Channel's 1998 Grand Illusions series, Street Magic (independent production of Ithaca College, NY), and The Magic Showcase (Jumbo Toys, Holland), U.S. Dept. of Treasury, Italian Trade Commission, and Japanese Travel Bureau.

Publications:

• The Larry White Hat Pin, White Magic Productions, 2003.
• Ben Robinson on Synchronicity, Metro-Video Productions, 2001.
• The Magic of Micah Lasher, Simon and Schuster, 1996.
• The Redstone Box of Tricks (aka The Magic Box, Hocus Pocus: A Box of Tricks), Shambhala Press, 1995.
• Illusions: The Evolution and Revolution of the Magic Box, Illusion Systems Pub., 1995.
• The John Booth Index, International Brotherhood of Magicians, 1990.
• Mouth Coil Magic, Magic Art Book Co., Watertown, MA, 1987.
• Twelve Have Died: Bullet Catching, The Story & Secrets), Magic Art Book Co., Watertown, MA, 1986.
  
• Ben Robinson has also written many articles, and reviews for magicians and other magazines including: The Keaton Chronicle, MagicTimes.com Spotlight News, Magic Past Times.com, Genii, The Linking Ring, MUM, MAJ, The Illusionist, MAGICOL; online newsletters Smoke & Mirrors, Shakespeare's E-mail, The magazine of Clowns International: The Joey, and Movement Theatre Quarterly, American Himalayan Foundation News, The Glaucoma Foundation News, and CC: (The Connecticut College Magazine).

Notable:

Solving the unfinished masterpiece of card magic Relativity & Cards left behind by legendary mind reader, Ted Annemann, December, 1998. Producing the Off-Broadway show STOMP at a special gala performance at Lincoln Center, New York, 1994. Trekking 150 miles round trip to the Base Camp of Mt. Everest with the oldest man to summit Mt. Everest, Dick Bass of Dallas, TX, May 1989. Chosen by World Champion Magician, Grand Prix winner, Johnny Ace Palmer to substitute for him at the world famous Magic Castle (CA) Close-Up Gallery, June, 1993. Profiled as the entire 233rd chapter in Dr. John Nicholls Booth's autobiography, Memoirs of a Magicians Ghost, 1989. Studying with Master Magician Milbourne Christopher, 1979-1984. Having taught magic to Spain's Trade Commissioner Mariano Muela, Howard Stern, Diane Keaton, and one student formally from age 10 to 20. 10-year informal study of parapsychology with noted researcher George Hansen Recovering a lost parrot who took flight in New York City (9 miles, 1 week) .

Levitating above Cadillac Mtn, Acadia National Park, Maine, at 1,500 feet, Summer 1999

Awards: 1995 Leslie R. Guest Award of Excellence, Society of American Magicians national convention, Boston, MA. 1990 Milbourne Christopher Foundation Award, Society of American Magicians national convention, Stamford, CT. 1986 Russian Pearl jewel, commemorating benefit show at London Palladium, gift of HRH Princess Anne, England. 1982 Award of Special Merit, The Linking Ring magazine for Indian Magic, presented by Int'l Brotherhood of Magicians. 1979 Connecticut College Library, Personal Library Second Prize, New London, CT.