Thomas Solomon
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Thomas Solomon (born Milwaukee,1969) is an American Escape Artist and magician.
He began his career in Chicago when he presented "The Great Escape" a show that combined his abilities as a magician and escape artist. With the success of this show, the nightclub asked Solomon to drop the magic and concentrate only on his escapes. As a marketing ploy, the nightclub asked participants to bring whatever they wanted to the theatre (handcuffs, locks, straitjackets) to challenge the magician. It is said that over the course of three years, he never failed.
Beginning his career at the age of thirteen as a locksmith, Solomon has achieved a knowledge of locks that is among the best in the world.
He has performed his award-winning act (2000 World Magic Awards, PAX Television) at The Roxy, The Magic Castle, Bally's and many others. In 1988 he entertained President Ronald Reagan at the White House where he escaped the handcuffs of the Uniformed Secret Service.
A brief list of accomplishments includes his escape from a twenty pound ball and chain at the bottom of the Hudson River, also, he has escaped a maximum security jail cell in Brooklyn, a titanium steel bank safe under thirty feet of water for British television, a locked revenue collection bag of the MTA (New York City Subway) the one-of a kind, French I Bar restraint, and an escape from London's oldest maximum security prison, Pentonville.
His first network special, Thomas Solomon: The Escape Artist aired on Channel Four in Great Britain in 2003 to rave reviews. His subsequent television appearances include the BBC's History of Magic and Channel Five's Secret World of Magicians. He is currently in negotiations for a show in Las Vegas.
His published works include: Diaries of an Escape Artist (1999), Escape! (2003) and Escape Velocity (2004).
