Past editions artist

Xavier Mortimer

On our stage at:

2012 FISM Italy 2015 United Magicians for the World 2020 2021 FISM European Championship 2024 FISM World Championship 2025

Raised in the South of France, Xavier Mortimer started out very young as a street performer, then studied music and dance in La Rochelle, and acting and mime at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris and in London. A magician, comedian and musician, he creates magical worlds by blending illusion, dance, music, comedy, mime and spectacular visual effects.

Recognition in France came in 2006 with L'Ombre Orchestre (The Shadow Orchestra), performed more than a thousand times. In 2012 he created the character Sneaky for Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson ONE in Las Vegas, where in 2016 he opened his own show, Magical Dream, at Planet Hollywood, moving to Bally's in 2018; from 2018 to 2022 the Las Vegas Review-Journal voted it the city's Best Magic Show. In 2020 he fooled Penn & Teller on Fool Us, and his social media videos have passed 13 billion views and 25 million followers. Since 2023 he has been touring the world with The Illusionists.

A long-time friend, he has been with us at the Masters of Magic Convention in 2012 and 2021, the FISM World Championship in Rimini 2015, United Magicians for the World in 2020, the FISM European Championship in Saint-Vincent 2024 and the FISM World Championship in Turin 2025.

Photo: Tfrantz, CC BY-SA 4.0

This page is part of our historical archive: it tells the story of the PAST editions. The 2027 cast is revealed one name at a time on the Artists page.