Tim Ellis & Sue-Anne Webster

TIM ELLIS ---

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Tim performed his first show over 30 years ago.

After high school, he trained as a TV Producer and Editor at Swinburne College of Film and Television.

In the 80's and 90's he created and produced 'Magic Week', Australia's National Festival of the Magical Arts, a ten-day-week filled with hundreds of performances all over the country. Tim helped promote it by performing stunts on National TV including being buried alive, escaping from straitjackets, and being lowered into the Yarra River in a padlocked wooden crate.

He helped produce the Japanese Television Special 'Magical Mystery Tour in Australia', and has made over 80 TV appearances since 1978.

For 5 years he owned and operated Melbourne's legendary 'Bernard's Magic Shop', and during this time he produced a series of 18 magic-teaching videos, as well as his own innovative tutorial tape 'Cunning Stunts'.

To encourage new talent Tim instituted a 'Junior Magician's Club', a TAFE College Magic Course for adults, and 'Magic Unlimited's Magic School' teaching presentation skills to established magicians.

He also created 'MagicSports' to develop creativity and staged monthly showcase nights where magicians tried out their new effects and ideas on the public.

After winning virtually every award Australian magic had to offer including 'Best Stage Magician' and 'Best Close Up Magician', Tim became the first Australian ever to win twice at the FISM 'World Championship of Magic' - Switzerland in 1991 and Japan in 1994.

In 2001 Tim and Sue-Anne teamed up to present their magic lectures throught the USA and Europe. In 2001 they were voted 'Most Valuable Participants' at the prestigious 'FFFF Convention' for Close-Up Magic.

Tim says he is first and foremost a Christian.

He enjoys movies and all kinds of gimmicks, gadgets and toys. He's a mark for the WWE and loves thin salt & vinegar chips. If he hadn't been a magician, he would have been a mini-golf pro.

SUE-ANNE WEBSTER---

Born in Sydney, Australia, Sue-Anne's interest in magic was sparked by watching 'The David Nixon Magic Show' on TV. She learned many tricks of her own and even had her own 'Tommy Talker' ventriloquist doll.

Sue-Anne's interest in the performing arts lead to her work in television for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as an Assistant Director on the television program 'Beatbox', and on the set of 'Tusitala' at the French's Forest Film Studio.

In 1988, Sue-Anne began art lessons taught by Turoa Walmsley who happened to be a magician with an interest in helping young people develop their skills in magic. Delighted, Sue-Anne took up the rare opportunity offered to her, initiating her career in magic. She began performing at nursing homes, children's parties, public shows in Town Halls and later at regular gigs in cafes and restaurants around Sydney.

To learn more about performance skills, Sue-Anne studied drama at The Australian Playhouse Studio in Sydney from 1990 to 1992 and went on to educate herself in Advanced Film and Television and Screen Acting at The Actor's Centre in Sydney as well as Theatrical Effects and Pyrotechnics, Latin Dance, Puppetry and Mime. She has worked as an actor on many stage shows, film productions, TV commercials, a television sitcom and a music video clip.

Sue-Anne met Tim in 1997 and began working as a magician with Magic Unlimited. Sue-Anne performed regularly in 'Cunning Stunts' at The Mystery Lounge in Melbourne, 'Dreams and Illusions' at Caper's Dinner Theatre. She is often seen doing strolling magic, performing as 'Jeannie', and starring in corporate shows where she saws Tim in half with a real chainsaw.

In 2001 Sue-Anne made her close-up magic debut at the prestigious FFFF Invitation-only close-up magic convention in New York. She became the first woman ever to receive the 'Most Valuable Participant' award which she shared with Tim Ellis.

Several years ago, Sue-Anne developed her award-winning 'Haunted Mansion' stage act in which she battled an unseen ghost who finally captured and made her disappear instantly while standing on top of a table.

In 1999 the 10 minute act was expanded into an extremely popular 50 minute show for schools which toured Australia for two years.

Sue-Anne not only performs magic, but she travels the world lecturing and teaching other magicians as well. She even writes magic books and invents tricks which are sold to magicians internationally.

She has climbed to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro, eaten piranha caught fresh from the Amazon River, and travelled to the real Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

She has explored the "New Age" and found it lacking. As a magician, she uses her knowledge of magic to expose the frauds who use sleight of hand and psychology to further a belief in the occult, as a Christian she prefers to seek the truth.

Sue-Anne's other interests include drawing cartoons, Latin dance, redesigning her house and looking after her bottomless pit and time-tunnel. When she's not rolling down the street in her Heelys, you might spot her in black PVC scaling the rooftops in South Melbourne for her photographer friend Tashkah.