Chris Cross

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 ''Cool and Funky Act'  Simon Cowell
'Very Nice Tricks - If he isn't at your party, you're stupid!' – Jimmy Carr

Chris Cross is a Stand-Up Comedy Magician, Contortionist and Escapologist. Currently based in the UK, he travels performing BIG Shows all around the World for thousands of Corporate, Celebrity and Private Events.

Chris reigns as one of the Top Escapologists in the UK and performs both Standard and Exclusive Customised Escapes around the World for Corporate events, Trade shows, Festivals, Theatres, Comedy Clubs, Venues, Product launches and Promotions. 

In his One Man Cabaret/Stage Show, ‘Escaping from Reality’, Chris performs his Trademark Freaky but Funny Body tricks followed by The Big Escape Finale from a Straitjacket and 10m of Chains. The Stage Magazine named it a ‘Must See Show’ at the Edinburgh Festival 2008.

Alongside the Cabaret and Stage Shows, Chris is a member of the Northern Magic Circle and is respectively a highly skilled and very much charactered(!) Close-Up Magician. Combining quick wit and talent, Chris can perform walkabout, meet and greet, mix and mingle Close-Up Magic. regular performances at casinos, nightclubs, corporate events, VIP parties, celebrity after-parties and so on...

Chris isn’t a crusty old Magician. If it’s the fresh and funky, modern and stylish, cool and professional image and approach you want to go for; Chris Cross is the BEST Entertainer for the job. This endearing combination of quick wit, charm and talent along with his bags of confidence and his gelling, engaging personality he has with his spectators, he provides a service to definitely be remembered and talked about for years later...!

Chris is very much a ‘stand out’ character! What with his crazy hair, tall towering structure and his trademark yellow and black, he is certainly someone who can attract a lot of attention and make the most of the abundance of energy he manages to gather.

‘That was so amazing! – Go on tell me how you did it!’  Abi Titmuss

‘Fast, Fluid and very Funny’ Northern Magic Circle Magazine

‘Great Stuff – Awww Brilliant Card Tricks’  Ross Noble

'Wow - Crazy Stuff!'  Ant and Dec

‘WIERD! Funny and Cool all the Same but JUST WIERD!’ – Bassment Jaxx

‘Really Cool Hair’ – David Blaine

We spotted Chris Cross and his own special brand of contortion on MySpace; it freaked us out enough that we decided to promote him all over the site. We wish him the best of luck wierding out crowds across the nation. – Myspace UK

‘A real throwback to music hall eccentricity, Chris Cross is inventive, totalling baffling and original. He REALLY should be put in a strait-jacket – trouble is he can wriggle out of one just as quick as Houdini.’
– Derek Smith, The Stage Magazine (from ‘Top 10 Speciality Acts Currently Working the Circuit’ Article)

‘His real skill is in creating an atmosphere of complete lunacy which infects your mind and leaves you questioning whether the sane world still exists. To say he is a natural showman is a gross understatement – the 19-year-old has already been a street performer for a decade and appeared on Britain’s Got Talent, and can handle an audience like a piece of putty. His body-bending stunts merely provide a vehicle for a comedy act that’s as slick as it is screwball, delivered in an outrageous, Russell Brand-esque persona.’ – Nuala Calvi, The Stage Magazine (Edinburgh Festival 2008 Review)