Lifetime Achievement 2020

JIM STEINMEYER is the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient for the Allan Slaight Awards!

This award recognizes the exceptional commitment to magic by the dedicated efforts of an individual over a lifetime, and comes with a prize of $15,000 and an engraved iPad to commemorate the occasion—courtesy of the Slaight Family Foundation. Past recipients include, Johnny Thompson, Ton Onosaka, Max Maven, Dr. Edwin Dawes and Juan Tamariz.

Even if we listed it all, it’s still near impossible to comprehend. 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.