Chris Cox

About

Chris Cox

Chris Cox knows what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, who the hell is Chris Cox? Well it’s a good job you’re reading this then. He’s the only mind-reader in history to have starred on Broadway, Sydney Opera House and London’s West End; the latter an incredible four times. He’s been seen on stage by over 750,000 people worldwide.

He stars in Chris Cox’s Mind Boggling Magic (CBBC) and the award winning Killer Magic (BBC Three), he’s a multi-award winning ‘mind reader who can’t read minds’ and according to The Guardian he is “one of the most exciting entertainers in Britain”. Time Out thinks, “he does tricks that would make Jesus proud” and that “he’s loveable, geeky & deceptively talented.” He’s far too modest to make them the first things people read about him though.

Chris is a unique force in the world of mind reading having played Broadway, four West End seasons and 22 sold-out shows at Sydney Opera House. He stars in the world’s biggest magic show The Illusionists (Broadway, West End, 3x US Tour, Reno Residency, South Africa, Mexico & Australia tours including Sydney Opera House), Impossible (2x Noel Coward Theatre London’s West End, Dubai Opera, Singapore, Araneta Arena Manila & World Tour) and in 2021 he created, hosted and headlined Wonderville at the Palace Theater in London’s West End.

On stage he also starred as Muddles alongside Warwick Davis in Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs (New Victoria Theatre, Woking). He’s written and performed 5 critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows, 4 solo UK Tours, 2 extended sell-out runs at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, won 2 Edinburgh Fringe Awards, a Best Comedy Show award and thirty separate 5 star reviews.

As well as starring in his own BBC shows Chris Cox’s Mind Boggling Magic and Killer Magic, he has been seen with One Direction reading their minds at the BBC Music Awards, Blue Peter, The Today Show (NBC), The Project (Network 10, Australia) America’s Got Talent (NBC), Heston Blumenthal’s Recipe For Romance (Channel 4), Now You See It (BBC One), How TV Changed Magic (Channel 5), The Secret Of Star Wars (BBC iPlayer), The Mentalist Revealed (Channel 5), not only that but was part of a BAFTA nominated team who brought magic to Merlin (BBC).

Chris Cox has performed at Shakespeare’s Globe, Latitude and the Reading & Leeds Festivals. He’s created magic for Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City (London), Lapland UK, Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory), Dan & Phil’s Amazing Tour Is Not On Fire (World Tour, London Palladium & Dolby Theatre Hollywood), Dan & Phil’s 2018 World Tour and for Bill Gates, Richard Curtis & Project Everyone.

As a creative consultant and creator of magic and theatrical creative experience Chris has developed material for Park Row Restaurant in collaboration with DC Comics and Warner Brothers in London and and for Heston Blumenthal and the three-Michelin-starred Fat Duck Restaurant. He was the writer and producer of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine The Musical, The Matt Edmondson Show, Dan & Phil’s Guide To Happiness and The Story Of Tim Minchin all for BBC Radio 1. Chris is also the Magic & Illusions Assistant for Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Parts 1 And 2 (Palace Theatre, London) and Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (UK Tour.)

Chris continues to tour in the world’s biggest magic show, The Illusionists, alongside staging his solo performances and presenting at corporate events around the globe. He hopes you have a lot of fun watching him today, and, because he’s a mind reader, he already knows that you’ll enjoy the show so much that you’ll leave thinking, “I love Cox!”