Steve Marshall (magician)

Steve Marshall is a Tokyo-based magician, clown, writer and artist who performs in English and Japanese. Marshall became interested in magic at age eight when he received a Marshall Brodien TV Magic Set for Christmas. In 1983 Marshall attended the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida. Upon graduation, he was one of only eleven students to receive a performing contract to tour with The Greatest Show on Earth.^[1]

Magician Steve Marshall

Sayonara to Hello is a documentary film covering one of his monthlong American tours. He is from Zephyrhills, Florida and graduated from Zephyrhills High School. He is married with two daughters.^[2]

As an artist, Marshall was the only American artist of 73 global artists to be chosen to design and paint a life-sized cow statue of the Tokyo installation of the international art exhibition of the "CowParade" in 2008.^{[citation needed]} He is the designer and creator of "Producer's Puzzle", the annual award given to the Broadway Global Producer of the year since its inception in 2012.^{[citation needed]}

In September 2017, Marshall performed on the show Penn & Teller: Fool Us, but failed to fool the hosts.