Bio

Thomas Solomon is an award-winning magician and escape artist. Known as “TheThinking-Man’s Magician” and “The World’s Greatest Escape Artist”, his varied career in theatre, industrials and television has earned him numerous awards.  Notable accomplishments include his network television specials on CH4 (Thomas Solomon, The Escape Artist), ITV (The Secret World of Magic and Magicians), BBC (The History of Magic) in Great Britain, NHK (Magic) in Japan and (THC) The History Channel and (THCI) The History Channel International (No Jail Can Hold Me) in the United States and overseas. He is the only escape artist to have entertained President Ronald Reagan and President George HW Bush at The White House where he escaped the handcuffs of the Uniformed Secret Service.

He has performed his award-winning magic at Bally’s MK, the Roxy, New York Comedy Club, Coney Island with shows Off-Broadway (Theatre of The Macabre), (Ellusions) and many other places.  He has performed twice at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California and was the resident magician on board Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s fleet of ships sailing throughout Bermuda, the Caribbean, and Australia. His magic has also been seen at product launches and tradeshows for Deutsche Bank, Absolut Vodka, Birdseye Frozen Foods, Alka-Seltzer, Sony, Ford Motor Company, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Proctor & Gamble, Black & Decker, and many others.

Publicity endeavors include his handcuff escape from a twenty pound ball and chain at the bottom of the Hudson River in New York; his escape after being chained to a weighted chair in the East River; underwater escapes in the Mississippi, Long Island Sound, the Potomac, the Ohio River, Narragansette Bay, the Allegheny, Boston Harbor, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Lake Michigan, et. al.  He has freed himself from thousands of pairs of handcuffs including those that held Lewis Payne, a Lincoln assassination conspirator and famed outlaw, Billy The Kid.

He has performed 19 jailbreaks in his career, and is the only escape artist to escape from Al Capone’s jail cell in Philadelphia and has twice escaped a locked safe including once underwater for British television.

His love of magic and escape artistry knows no bounds and he continues to present cutting edge artistic work that has his audiences standing and cheering.