Nik Taylor

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Last updated 8th June 2026

Nik Taylor is Director of Teaching and Learning for The School of Arts and Humanties at the University of Huddersfield He is co-editor of The Journal of Performance Magic. 

He has worked as a performer, writer and director; working on a number of projects in the UK, Germany and France, including Discurs’96 & The Festival of Contemporary European Plays. He has designed for Performance City, FestCEP & Sapajou, produced a low budget feature, and performed as a dancing penguin.

As a Research Magician, he is coordinator of the Magic Research Group and has just completed a research project entitled, ‘Performing Real Magic(K): The Conjurer and Audience in Bizarre Magick’. He is currently writing a monograph examining the cultural history of performance magic.

As a performer, Nik specialises in Bizarre Magick, Sideshow, Séance and Divination.  Nik co-curates Mr Punch’s Cabinet of Curiosities a dark museum of weird and haunted artefacts, and is currently working on a short film capturing the Victorian Parlour Séance. He recently advised on the Thackray Medical Museum’s The Magic of Medicine exhibition and Proper Job Theatre’s Nosferatu and performed in Hester Reeve’s YMEDACA at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.  

He is a member of The Magic Circle and The British Society of Mystery Entertainers.