17 Facts About Todd Robbins

Todd Robbins was born on August 15,1958 and is an American magician, lecturer, actor, and author.

Todd Robbins was born in Long Beach, California, the son of a soap executive and a schoolteacher.

Todd Robbins became the first Junior Member of the Famous Magic Castle school of magic.

Todd Robbins went on a myriad of auditions and landed some small, low-paying roles.

Todd Robbins began working at Coney Island in an amusement park sideshow swallowing swords, eating fire, hammering nails in his nose, doing all those great, classic old-timer acts.

Todd Robbins inherited the sideshow tradition almost literally, from Melvin Burkhart, one of the pioneers in the field.

Todd Robbins's cremated remains were left to Robbins, who subsequently sprinkled the ashes at Coney Island.

Todd Robbins is known for a variety of sideshow acts such as sword swallowing, Human Blockhead, and glass eating, including wine glasses and light bulbs.

Todd Robbins estimates he has eaten more than 5,000 light bulbs throughout his career, sometimes consuming up to 21 per week.

Todd Robbins 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.

Todd Robbins was a featured guest on Criss Angel Mindfreak and is the main subject of the 2005 documentary American Carny: True Tales From The Circus Sideshow, directed by Nick Basile.

Todd Robbins is one of five partners in the longest running off-Broadway show, Monday Night Magic.

Todd Robbins starred in an off-Broadway show Carnival Knowledge which ran from 2002 to 2004 and featured Robbins eating light bulbs and swallowing swords.

Todd Robbins served as dean of the sideshow school in Coney Island, where for $600 he would teach about the history of sideshow acts as well as instruct the students how to swallow swords or lie on a bed of nails.

Todd Robbins has been associated with the Big Apple Circus for more than a dozen years and can often be seen playing piano with Woody Allen's jazz band at the Cafe Carlyle.

In 2015, Todd Robbins began hosting a TV series on ID network titled 'True Nightmares' in which he presents 3 strange but true characters known to history as nightmares that came all too true.

In 2019, Todd Robbins began hosting and producing a weekly showcase of stage and close-up magic in New York City called, "Speakeasy Magick", at the McKittrick Hotel.