Alan Watson Award-winning Auckland magician
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Auckland, New Zealand

Alan Watson

Award-winning Auckland magician

Alan Watson is a close-up magic and corporate events artist based in Auckland. Multi-award-winning magician Alan Watson QSM performs close-up, stage and mix-and-mingle magic across Auckland and beyond.

Career overview

Alan Watson at a glance

Alan Watson is a close-up magician based in Auckland, New Zealand, known for card magic and visual sleight of hand. Alan Watson's career includes being billed 1 week at The Magic Castle in Hollywood.

Magic
Close-Up Magic, Corporate Events
Based in
Auckland, New Zealand
Booking
Accepts private bookings
Page updated
Sep 17, 2026
The performer

About Alan Watson

Multi-award-winning magician Alan Watson QSM performs close-up, stage and mix-and-mingle magic across Auckland and beyond. Sir Bob Harvey called him "a once-in-a-generation magician, capable of producing breathtaking wonderment" in Metro Magazine, and after a night at the Variety Artists Club, David Hartnell MNZM wrote that in his eyes Alan is "New Zealand's greatest magician", respected by international peers as a "Master of Magic".

Much of the appeal is proximity: plenty of people have seen magic on television, but watching it happen inches away is another thing entirely. Alan moves among guests, relating to them as warmly as he astonishes them, and tailors each show to the occasion — corporate functions and trade show promotions, weddings and the gap while photographs are taken, family events and children's birthday parties.

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Signature disciplines
The Magic Castle

Billed 1 week at the Castle

Castle debut 2002, on the Castle’s published schedules as the archive records them. Rooms: Close-Up (1).

Every week on the record · What is on at the Castle now

The repertoire

Magic Style & Disciplines

Close-Up Magic

Sleight of hand at intimate distance — cards, coins, and sleight of hand.

Corporate Events

Tailored entertainment for corporate events, conferences, and celebrations.

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