JIM STEINMEYER is the 2020 Allan Slaight Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
This award recognizes the exceptional commitment to magic by the dedicated efforts of an individual over a lifetime, comes with a prize of $15,000 and an engraved iPad to commemorate the occasion.
Jim Steinmeyer’s extraordinary achievements in advancing the art of magic is staggering. Teller said it best in The New York Times in 2003 when he wrote, that Jim is a “celebrated ‘invisible man’—inventor, designer and creative brain behind many of the great stage magicians of the last quarter-century.”
Designer, inventor, writer, consultant, all-around creative genius—Jim Steinmeyer has spent a lifetime enriching magic in every possible way. He has pushed the art far beyond the barriers of possibility, and has elevated magic to a whole new experience of exquisite wonder.