John Bulleid | Illusion Designer | Magician

John is an illusion designer, actor and magician with work behind multiple award-winning productions. He holds the title of Associate of the Inner Magic Circle with Silver Star, and trained as an actor at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

John is the UK Illusions Associate on Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Palace Theatre) and current projects include Bill Bailey: Vaudevillian (Theatre Royal Haymarket); The Cherry Orchard (Harold Pinter Theatre); The Disappearing Man (UK Tour); Olivia (Østre Gasværk Teater, Copenhagen).

Illusion design credits include Inside No.9 Stage/Fright (Wyndham’s Theatre and UK Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Magician’s Elephant (RSC); A Tupperware of Ashes (National Theatre); Further Than The Furthest Thing (Young Vic); The Tempest, Robin Hood (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Piccadilly Theatre); Macbeth, Rough Magic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Inn At Lydda (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Worst Witch (Vaudeville Theatre – winner of Best Family Show, 2020 Olivier Awards); Oi Frog! (Lyric Theatre);Magic (Chichester Festival Theatre).

Further credits include: Crybabies (Edinburgh Festival and Soho Theatre); A Fine Idea (Arcola); Mr. Hyde (Donmar Warehouse); Beauty & The Beast (Lion Entertainment/Royal National Theatre Copenhagen); Dracula (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith); Ride (Curve Leicester/Southwark Playhouse Elephant); Piaf (The Gate, Dublin); Dirty Dancing (Secret Cinema); Into the Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); A Christmas Carol starring Mark Gatiss (Nottingham Playhouse & Alexandra Palace); m#WeAreArrested (RSC/Arcola Theatre); Our Lady of Kibeho (Northampton/Stratford East); The Lost Spells, Beauty And The Beast (Watford Palace); Doctor Who: Time Fracture (Immersive London); The Canterville Ghost (Unicorn Theatre); Witches of Eastwick (Cirkus, Stockholm); Wickies, When Darkness Falls (Park Theatre); The Invisible Man, Partners in Crime (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Star (Liverpool Everyman); The Gypsy Thread (National Theatre Studio).

Associate Illusions credits include: Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre); The Ocean at the End of the Lane (National Theatre/UK Tour/Noël Coward Theatre); A Very Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre).

TV and Film credits include: The Science of Indian Jones (Sky TV) You and Universe (Short film); Loo (Short film).