Simon Drake was born on Simon Alexander; 1 March 1957 and is an English magician based in London.
13 Facts About Simon Drake
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Simon Drake is best known for the television series The Secret Cabaret made for Britain's Channel 4.
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Simon Drake first came to wider attention in Kate Bush's UK live tour in 1979 for which he co-devised visuals and played seven characters.
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Simon Drake has a wide and diverse performing history, performing at Tenjo Sajiki in Japan, to the Royal Variety Show at the London Palladium before Queen Elizabeth II.
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Simon Drake advised Nicolas Roeg for the film Castaway, coaching Oliver Reed in sleight of hand, and was magic advisor to Harvey Keitel on FairyTale: A True Story.
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Simon Drake has performed and consulted with many performers including Elton John, Phil Collins, Madness, David Gilmour, Meat Loaf, Steve Miller, Daryl Hall, Bill Wyman, George Harrison, Julian Lennon, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Katy Perry, and Pamela Stephenson.
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Simon Drake has performed twice as a guest with The Royal Ballet at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the London Coliseum.
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Simon Drake has appeared at festivals and tours in Canada, New Zealand, Europe and in the UK and has had residencies at many London nightclubs as well as a month in cabaret at Casino de Monte-Carlo, Paris and Dubai.
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Simon Drake was the magic and effects supervisor to Cameron Mackintosh for the West End production of The Witches of Eastwick and Ducktastic.
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Simon Drake was a consultant on the South London Theatre's Spring 2007 production of Dr Faustus.
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Simon Drake was a consultant on the production of episode 6 of the fourth series of the BBC television drama Hustle.
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Simon Drake was a magic advisor on the Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus acting as a consultant to the director in pre-production and coaching Christopher Plummer and Andrew Garfield in the art of sleight of hand.
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Simon Drake was called in to help Terry Gilliam with a seemingly impossible problem on his production of into the Woods which opened at the Theatre Royal Bath in Summer 2022.