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Harrison Greenbaum

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Harrison Greenbaum
BornHarrison Greenbaum
September 14 1986
New York, NY

Websiteharrisongreenbaum.com

Harrison Greenbaum is one of the top comedy magicians in the country, the first-ever comedy magician to headline a Cirque du Soleil show (Cirque du Soleil's Mad Apple in Las Vegas); the first comedy magician to be featured at the Comedy Cellar (New York, NY), Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (New York, NY), and the National Comedy Center (Jamestown NY); and the first comedy magician to ever win both the Senator Crandall Award for originality and creativity in comedy magic and the Andy Kaufman Award for originality and creativity in stand-up comedy.

Biography

Harrison Greenbaum began performing magic at the age of five and stand-up comedy while studying psychology and English at Harvard. A summa cum laude graduate, Harrison was the longest-tenured president of the Harvard Magic Society in the group’s history. ​ Now one of the most in-demand comedic performers in the world, Harrison has performed more than 600 shows a year for the past 15 years, leading both Time Out New York and the NY Daily News to call him "the hardest-working man in comedy."

On television, Harrison has been featured on America’s Got Talent, Last Comic Standing, Conan, Comedy Central’s This Week at the Comedy Cellar, AXS.TV’s Gotham Comedy Live, and National Geographic Channel’s Brain Games. On Brain Games, Harrison used his background in magic to debunk fake psychics.

Harrison has toured around the world as one of the stars of The Illusionists: Direct from Broadway, the biggest-selling magic show in history, and as the host of The Unbelievables, which ran for more than 20 performances at the Sydney Opera House, toured Australia, and was seen by more than 100,000 people. The most requested performer at Monday Night Magic, the longest-running Off-Broadway magic show in New York, Harrison has also performed at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, the Mystery Lounge in Boston, and was one of only 30 magicians chosen to perform at the International Festival of Magic, Illusion, and the Unusual in Louisville, Kentucky.

Harrison's solo comedy+magic show, Harrison Greenbaum: What Just Happened?, debuted at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York in 2010, where it was a sold-out smash and the venue’s first-ever comedy magic show.

Since then, the show has toured internationally, including a two-month run Off-Broadway, and has been featured at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Magic Castle in Hollywood, CA, and the Sydney Opera House. The show was also the first and only magic show to be featured at the Comedy Cellar in New York, Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles, and the National Comedy Center, as well as the first and only magic show to be presented by the National Lampoon.

Most recently, Harrison became the first-ever comedy magician to headline a Cirque du Soleil show, Cirque du Soleil's Mad Apple, at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino, completing a 650-show run in 2023. His book, "You Are All Terrible: The Book," which was based on his popular lecture and Genii column of the same name, was the first book published by Tannen's Magic in nearly 40 years and the best-selling magic book of 2023.

Awards and Honors

  • Andy Kaufman Award (2010)
  • Senator Crandall Award (2017)
  • Presidential Citation from the International Brotherhood of Magicians (2021)

Bibliography

  • Magazines

Harrison was a columnist for Genii Magazine from 2016-2017 with his column, "You Are All Terrible."

  • Books

"You Are All Terrible: The Book," published in 2023 by Tannen's Magic

  • Podcasts

"Who Books That? with Harrison Greenbaum," presented by the International Brotherhood of Magicians (whobooksthat.com)



References




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