Derren Brown

Derren Brown redefines magic through must-see stage events, exhilarating audiences worldwide with his brand of psychological illusion.

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Derren Brown Biography & Credentials

After 20 years of exhilarating audiences in the UK, Derren Brown has become a worldwide sensation. His TV specials, stage shows, and live performances are among the most jaw-dropping magic you can experience. Derren Brown is available to be booked for corporate and private events. He is also well-known for his keynote and motivational speaking. Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group today to inquire about Derren Brown’s fees.

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Contact the Mollie Plotkin Group at 215-995-0905 to book Derren Brown for a keynote speech, corporate event, leadership program, workshop, fireside chat, virtual appearance, or other private or professional event.

Our team will help confirm Derren Brown’s availability, speaking fee, travel requirements, and fit for your audience. To start the booking process, please share your event date, location, audience size, event format, and the type of presentation you are looking for.

The Mollie Plotkin Group is a full-service keynote speaker agency and entertainment bureau that helps organizations secure keynote speakers, entertainers, athletes, celebrities, and thought leaders for corporate meetings, conferences, fundraisers, and special events.

Derren Brown originally planned to become a lawyer. He was studying law and German at Bristol University when he witnessed a hypnosis show by Martin Taylor. Ultimately, this was the stimulus that inspired him to choose a new career as a magician, hypnotist, and mentalist. Afterward, Derren Brown started performing stage shows at the university and close-up magic at local bars and restaurants.

Television Specials

In 2000, Derren launched his first show, Mind Control. It was an instant success: revolutionizing the art of mentalism to a whole new concept of exciting and popular entertainment. Having expanded the genre of magic, Derren’s name has become synonymous with the art of psychological manipulation. His television shows have garnered rave reviews and coveted awards including the BAFTA for Best Entertainment. His legendary specials include Russian Roulette, Seance, The Heist, Hero at 30,000 Feet, How to Predict the Lottery, and Apocalypse. Most recently in Derren Brown: The Push, he exposed the psychological secrets of obedience and social compliance with extraordinary results.

Award-Winning Live Shows

However, Derren Brown didn’t become one of the most renowned mentalists and mind readers in the world with just TV specials. Since 2005, he has toured with eight sell-out one-man stage shows. The shows have garnered a record-breaking five Olivier Award nominations for Best Entertainment – Britain’s most prestigious honor for stage shows. Even more, he won twice. His first Olivier Award came for Something Wicked This Way Comes in 2006 his second for Svengali in 2012. This means Derren has had the largest number of nominations and wins for one-person shows in the history of the Awards. Additionally, his 2017 US debut show SECRET won the New York Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience and returned for a sell-out run on Broadway in 2019.

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Derren openly confirms that he does not possess any supernatural or magical powers. However, his performances often expose the methods of those who do, such as faith healers and psychic mediums. Further, he never uses stooges or plants to achieve his work. The participants in his TV projects and live performances are entirely genuine and unwitting. Derren makes it very clear that his performances are simply demonstrations using psychology. intuition, hypnosis, interpretation of body language, and the power of suggestion. He also utilizes the magician’s traditional tools of misdirection, sleight of hand, cold reading, and showmanship. Organizations that hire Derren Brown will get a unique performance of psychological illusion that none can imitate. 

Derren Brown is also the author of Meet the People with Love, Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine and Confessions of a Conjuror.

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Books by Derren Brown

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Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

Transworld Publishers · 2026

Happy questions many modern assumptions about what happiness is and how it should be pursued. Drawing on philosophy, particularly Stoic and Epicurean thinking, the book challenges the promises of relentless positivity, self-belief and goal chasing. Instead, it offers a calmer approach centered on accepting what cannot be controlled, examining desire and appreciating life without turning happiness into another performance metric.

Derren Brown Videos

Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head | Derren Brown | TED

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Psychological Illusionist Derren Brown Test The Audience With Social Experiment | Megyn Kelly TODAY

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Derren Brown: The Push I Official Trailer [HD] I Netflix

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The Best Experiments On The Public | 35-Minute Compilation | Derren Brown

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