David Penn (magician)

{{Short description|English magician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

David Penn is a corporate English magician from Northampton. He has been seen in the UK on four major TV series including The Sorcerer's Apprentice on BBC1,{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p66yp|title=Sorcerer's Apprentice : Episode 6|work=CBBC|accessdate=4 July 2014}} The Sorcerer's Apprentice Extra on BBC2, Freaky on Channel 4 and Astounding Celebrities on ITV1 . He reached the live semi -finals of Britain's Got Talent on ITV1. He has been described in The Daily Telegraph as "one of the country's leading illusionists".{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10139380/Have-online-speculators-cracked-Dynamos-levitation-trick.html|title=Have online speculators cracked Dynamo's levitation trick?|first=Ben|last=Riley-Smith|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=24 June 2013|accessdate=4 July 2014}}

Penn became interested in magic after his grandfather showed him a trick that involved pulling coins from behind his ear.{{cite news|url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/entertainment/chelmsford_britain_s_got_talent_magician_david_penn_and_the_other_stars_of_champions_of_magic_on_their_civic_theatre_show_1_3573019 |title=Chelmsford: Britain's Got Talent magician David Penn and the other stars of Champions of Magic on their Civic Theatre show |work=East Anglian Daily Times |first=Wayne |last=Savage |date=25 April 2014 |accessdate=4 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714202657/http://www.eadt.co.uk/entertainment/chelmsford_britain_s_got_talent_magician_david_penn_and_the_other_stars_of_champions_of_magic_on_their_civic_theatre_show_1_3573019 |archivedate=14 July 2014 }}

He is known amongst magicians for Refraction, his re-working of the Ted Lesley wine-glass bending effect and his coin bending effect Coinvexed.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} He also appears every other week with Sean Haydon on a show called the Wizard Product Review.