Todd Robbins
| Todd Robbins | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 15, 1958 Long Beach, California, United States |
| Occupation | Magician, carnival performer, writer, actor |
| Spouse | Krista Brown Robbins |
| Website | |
| ToddRobbins.com | |
Todd Robbins (born August 15, 1958[1]) is an American magician, lecturer, actor, and author.
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[edit] Biography
He was born in Long Beach, California, the son of soap executive and a schoolteacher. In 1980 he moved to New York City to pursue a career in theater. Instead he resurrected his interest in magic and carnivals and ended up working at Coney Island.[1][2]
He has been featured on more than 100 television shows, which include multiple appearances on David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien; Masters of Illusion; and the NBC special Extreme Variety. He was a featured guest on Criss Angel Mindfreak[3] and is also the main subject of the 2005 documentary American Carny: True Tales From The Circus Sideshow directed by Nick Basile.[3]
Todd Robbins is one of five partners in the longest running off-Broadway show, Monday Night Magic.[1][4]
He starred in an off-Broadway show Carnival Knowledge which ran from 2002[2] to 2004 and featured Robbins eating light bulbs[1] and swallowing swords.[5]
In 2008 he toured as part of a stage show called Hoodwinked with Bob Arno, Banachek and Richard Turner.[6][7]
In 2009 Robbins was featured in a Ripley's Believe It or Not! cartoon panel noting that he had "chewed and swallowed over 4,000 light bulbs."[8]
In 2010 Robbins is starring in Play Dead, written by Robbins and Teller of Penn & Teller, a "throwback to the spook shows of the 1930s and ’40s" that ran September 12 - 24 in Las Vegas before opening Off Broadway in New York at The Players Theatre.[9]
Todd Robbins has worked for Ripley's Believe It Or Not! [10] and was also a ringmaster at the Big Apple Circus.
[edit] Books
- Robbins, Todd (2008). The Modern Con Man: How to Get Something for Nothing. New York: Bloomsbury USA. pp. 240 pages. ISBN 159691453X. OCLC 182621498.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Tallmer, Jerry (Auguast 13-19, 2003). "He eats light bulbs, fire and walks on glass". The Villager 73 (15). http://www.thevillager.com/villager_16/heaatslight.html. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- ^ a b Hornberger, Francine (2005). Carny Folk: The World's Weirdest Sideshow Acts. New York: Citadel Press. pp. 181–184. ISBN 9780806526614. OCLC 57380512. http://books.google.com/?id=gq3oQDz9bHoC&pg=RA2-PT102&dq=%22Todd+Robbins%22+1958&q=%22Todd%20Robbins%22%201958. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- ^ a b Todd Robbins at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "MNM Performers". Monday Night Magic. http://www.mondaynightmagic.com/performers.html. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- ^ Kaplan, Howard (October 13, 2003). "Dept. of Digestion: A Maalox Moment". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/13/031013ta_talk_kaplan. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- ^ Greenaway, K (July 10, 2008). "If it weren't onstage, it'd be illegal". The Montreal Gazette. http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=bf16353a-b91a-48a5-8d26-e528e3076710. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- ^ Smith, Alison (November 25, 2008). "Woo in Review: HOODWINKED". SWIFT (James Randi Educational Foundation). http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/314-woo-in-review-hoodwinked.html. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
- ^ "Ripley's Believe It or Not!". United Media. August 27, 2009. http://comics.com/ripleys_believe_it_or_not/2009-08-27/. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
- ^ Chareunsy, Don (September 16, 2010). "Teller’s Las Vegas-born Play Dead is headed to off-Broadway". Las Vegas Weekly. http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/luxe-life/2010/sep/16/tellers-las-vegas-born-emplay-deadem-headed--broad/. Retrieved September 27, 2010
- ^ O'Brien, Tim "World Sword Swallowing Day Celebrated", Ripley's Newsroom, March 3, 2010, accessed February 1, 2011.
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