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James Alan
Overview
James Alan proves that magic really is for grownups. A Toronto-based magician and sleight-of-hand artist, he creates interactive performances for corporate functions, private parties and weddings across Ontario. No boxes, no flashing lights — just astonishing magic inches from your guests, often in their own hands.
Clients include Google, IBM, Scotiabank, RBC, Meta, Ernst & Young and the Toronto International Film Festival. The Toronto Star calls him "a magnetic presence on stage." CP24 was blunter: "James Alan blew us away."
He is also a working theatre performer, with over 200 sold-out performances of his own show Magic & Martini.
Reviews
31 reviews
Marija C.
August 23, 2026James was a blast!
We had James come to our bachlorette weekend and he was a blast! From the jump, communication was clear and open. He is super funny and personable. By the end of his show, we all believed in magic just a little bit ✨️
Hired as: Magician
Anays T.
June 24, 2026Fantastic
James came out to do some surprise magic for my wife's 30th birthday party.
Sat in the park with us and blew our minds!
He was responsive and punctual, would highly recommend.
Hired as: Magician
Helen G.
January 19, 2026Amazing performance - a total crowdpleaser!
The perfect booking for our friend's 30th birthday.
Hired as: Illusionist, Magician
Greg B.
December 29, 2025Great time!
James was incredible, everyone had a great time.
Hired as: Magician
Monika B.
December 11, 2025Great for our Christmas Party
We had a blast with James. His tricks and whitty humor was a great way to light up our Christmas party at our office. The entire team left smiling and wondering how he finished his big trick!
Hired as: Magician
Booking information
Price range: $1,000 and up
Languages: English, French
Gig length: 20 - 90 minutes
Insurance: $2,000,000 - General liability
What to expect
Your guests won't watch this show. They'll be in it.
Every performance is built around the people in the room — their choices, their hands, their reactions — so no two events are alike. Money appears from nowhere. Thoughts get read. Objects your guests are holding do things they have no business doing. James performs the classics of magic with a modern sense of humour, and he reads a room quickly: a boardroom lunch, a black-tie gala and a backyard 40th all need different things, and the show is shaped to fit before he arrives.
Three formats, depending on your event:
Stage shows — formal performances for audiences up to 500. Parlour performances and house concerts — seated and intimate, for groups up to 50. Cocktail close-up — flexible mingling magic for receptions, dinners and standing events.
Sets typically run 20 to 90 minutes, and can be split across an evening — cocktail-hour mingling, then a short formal set after dinner.
Tell him the room, the guest count and what the evening is meant to feel like, and he'll tell you honestly which format fits, including when the answer is a shorter set or none of the above.
About
James Alan is a Toronto-based magician specializing in classical sleight of hand — the close, technical, in-your-hands kind of magic that survives being watched from a foot away. No boxes, no flashing lights. His performances are interactive by design: it's the audience and the choices they make that shape the show, which means no two are ever the same.
He has performed for Google, IBM, Scotiabank, RBC, Meta, Ernst & Young and the Toronto International Film Festival, at events ranging from boardroom lunches to national television.
"It's no lie to say that James Alan pulls off some truly astonishing sleight-of-hand tricks. He's also such a magnetic presence on stage that, by the end, it's impossible not to be enraptured by his magic." — Joshua Chong, Senior Arts Critic, The Toronto Star
Alongside corporate and private work, he has built a substantial body of theatre. His own show Magic & Martini (2016) paired fine dining and hand-crafted cocktails with close-up magic and ran over 200 sold-out performances in Toronto, Mississauga, Oakville and Orangeville. Before it, he hosted Magic Tonight, a weekly series that ran in downtown Toronto for more than two years — together, seven years of continuous weekly magic in the city. His solo shows The Uncertainty Project (2014) and Lies, Damn Lies & Magic Tricks (2012) were featured at the SummerWorks Performance Festival, the Hamilton Fringe Festival and the Wychwood Theatre. His most recent solo show, Mysteries and Lies, played the 2026 Toronto Fringe Festival.
He also created Bring Magic Home, an interactive virtual experience performed hundreds of times for teams worldwide, and The Choice, a close-up magic experience featured regularly at À Toi.
"Thought-provoking, funny, astonishing and thoroughly entertaining. It’s a great magic display and that’s all anyone needs to know."
— Ontario Arts Review
"Truly entertaining."
— NOW Magazine
Additional booking notes
Professional sound equipment is provided at no additional charge for audiences up to 200. Larger audiences require staging and sound appropriate to the venue; James is glad to advise, or to coordinate directly with your venue's technical staff.
Setup takes approximately 20 minutes and can happen before guests arrive.
Services offered
Upcoming booked events
September 2026
25
Friday
Bachelorette Party
6:00pm - 7:00pm
•
Trent Lakes, ON
27
Sunday
Wedding Reception
6:30pm - 7:30pm
•
Hamilton, ON
October 2026
18
Sunday
Birthday Party
5:30pm - 6:30pm
•
Gravenhurst, ON
Past booked events
August 2026
21
Friday
Bachelorette Party
8:00pm - 9:00pm
•
Mulmur, ON
14
Friday
Bachelorette Party
9:00pm - 9:45pm
•
Prince Edward, ON
13
Thursday
Corporate Event
1:30pm - 2:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
June 2026
23
Tuesday
Birthday Party
6:00pm - 6:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
May 2026
15
Friday
Bachelorette Party
8:00pm - 9:00pm
•
Niagara Falls, ON
January 2026
17
Saturday
Birthday Party
10:00pm - 11:00pm
•
Toronto, ON
December 2025
28
Sunday
Dinner Party
8:30pm - 9:30pm
•
Clarington, ON
28
Sunday
Cocktail Party
4:00pm - 4:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
10
Wednesday
Corporate Event
1:00pm - 3:00pm
•
Mississauga, ON
October 2025
18
Saturday
Birthday Party
8:00pm - 9:00pm
•
Vaughan, ON
September 2025
27
Saturday
Birthday Party
9:30pm - 10:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
27
Saturday
Birthday Party
6:30pm - 7:15pm
•
Erin, ON
August 2025
22
Friday
Birthday Party
10:00pm - 10:45pm
•
Toronto, ON
19
Tuesday
House Party
8:00pm - 9:00pm
•
Toronto, ON
08
Friday
Bachelorette Party
7:00pm - 7:45pm
•
Kirkfield, ON
July 2025
05
Saturday
Cocktail Party
10:00pm - 11:00pm
•
Toronto, ON
June 2025
14
Saturday
Cocktail Party
6:30pm - 7:30pm
•
Picton, ON
11
Wednesday
Corporate Event
1:30pm - 2:15pm
•
Toronto, ON
07
Saturday
Bachelorette Party
5:00pm - 5:45pm
•
Toronto, ON
May 2025
25
Sunday
Birthday Party
3:00pm - 4:00pm
•
Toronto, ON
03
Saturday
Birthday Party
6:00pm - 7:00pm
•
Toronto, ON
February 2025
26
Wednesday
Birthday Party
6:00pm - 7:00pm
•
Markham, ON
October 2024
22
Tuesday
Birthday Party
2:00pm - 3:00pm
•
New Tecumseth, ON
15
Tuesday
Cocktail Party
8:30pm - 11:00pm
•
Toronto, ON
September 2024
10
Tuesday
Corporate Event
12:00pm - 1:30pm
•
Waterloo, ON
July 2024
06
Saturday
Birthday Party
8:30pm - 9:15pm
•
Toronto, ON
June 2024
21
Friday
Retirement Community Event
2:00pm - 3:00pm
•
Collingwood, ON
May 2024
25
Saturday
Corporate Event
8:00pm - 9:30pm
•
Haliburton, ON
April 2024
13
Saturday
Birthday Party
2:30pm - 3:15pm
•
Vaughan, ON
March 2024
23
Saturday
Birthday Party
7:30pm - 8:30pm
•
Wasaga Beach, ON
23
Saturday
Corporate Event
10:00am - 10:45am
•
Bobcaygeon, ON
January 2024
26
Friday
Teen Birthday Party
8:00pm - 8:45pm
•
Toronto, ON
December 2023
01
Friday
Corporate Event
8:00pm - 8:30pm
•
Oshawa, ON
September 2023
21
Thursday
School Assembly
4:30pm - 5:30pm
•
Caledon, ON
August 2023
14
Monday
Reunion
11:00pm - 12:00am (Tue)
•
Niagara Falls, ON
June 2023
10
Saturday
Birthday Party
8:00pm - 8:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
May 2023
27
Saturday
Wedding Reception
5:00pm - 6:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
November 2022
12
Saturday
Birthday Party
10:00pm - 10:45pm
•
Toronto, ON
04
Friday
Birthday Party
7:00pm - 9:00pm
•
Rochester, NY
October 2022
29
Saturday
House Party
10:00pm - 10:45pm
•
North York, ON
26
Wednesday
Nonprofit Event
2:30pm - 3:00pm
•
Belleville, ON
14
Friday
Retirement Community Event
2:30pm - 3:15pm
•
Barrie, ON
September 2022
25
Sunday
Birthday Party
4:00pm - 5:00pm
•
Gormley, ON
17
Saturday
Fundraiser
2:00pm - 3:30pm
•
London, ON
14
Wednesday
Nonprofit Event
7:30pm - 8:30pm
•
Cherry Valley, ON
July 2022
31
Sunday
Cocktail Party
8:00pm - 9:00pm
•
Hamilton, ON
June 2022
29
Wednesday
Surprise
10:30am - 11:00am
•
Toronto, ON
04
Saturday
Birthday Party
5:00pm - 5:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
April 2022
24
Sunday
Baby Shower
1:30pm - 2:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
October 2021
16
Saturday
Birthday Party
4:30pm - 6:00pm
•
Ennismore, ON
September 2021
30
Thursday
Nonprofit Event
2:30pm - 3:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
August 2021
15
Sunday
Birthday Party
12:00pm - 1:30pm
•
Cedar Valley, ON
July 2021
17
Saturday
Birthday Party
7:00pm - 7:30pm
•
Hamilton, ON
December 2020
31
Thursday
Virtual Event
7:00pm - 7:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
September 2020
26
Saturday
Dinner Party
7:30pm - 10:00pm
•
Kitchener, ON
May 2020
09
Saturday
Anniversary Party
6:30pm - 8:00pm
•
Ajax, ON
February 2020
28
Friday
Nonprofit Event
7:30pm - 8:30pm
•
Brampton, ON
07
Friday
Birthday Party
7:00pm - 8:00pm
•
Toronto, ON
January 2020
03
Friday
Surprise
6:30pm - 8:00pm
•
Caledon East, ON
December 2019
07
Saturday
Christmas Party
7:00pm - 8:00pm
•
Walters Falls, ON
November 2019
22
Friday
Birthday Party
8:30pm - 9:00pm
•
Whitby, ON
October 2019
31
Thursday
Halloween Party
7:00pm - 7:45pm
•
Toronto, ON
May 2019
16
Thursday
Dinner Party
7:30pm - 8:30pm
•
Toronto, ON
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