Tim
Ellis born on May 8 to parents Ron and Jan |
Sue-Anne Webster born on January 11 to
parents John and Helena |
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EARLY YEARS
 Sue-Anne is inspired to take up magic after
watching David Nixon on TV.
She gets a magic kit of her own as well as a
'Tommy Talker' ventriloquist doll.
Sue-Anne invited to train for the Olympic Games
as a gymnast
Sue-Anne wins 'Sports Girl of the Year'
Sue-Anne
appears in a radio play.
Sue-Anne flies across Antarctica.
Tim given a Hanky Panky Magic Set
from his
grandfather.Tim joins
'The Young Magicians'
school
under the tuition of
Lyndsay Reitschel.
At the age of 14 he
is the youngest member ever admitted to 'The Magic Circle of Victoria' club.
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1978
Tim attends his first
Australian National Magic
Convention
Tim makes
his television debut on 'The Earlybird Show' |
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1979
Tim wins four out the five of 'The Magic Circle of
Victoria's awards for magical excellence |
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1980
Tim attends the
Australian National Magic
Convention and is declared 'Teenage Champion Magician'.
Tim appears on the Network Ten television
show 'You're A Star!'
Tim appears in the title role of the stage
play 'Charley's Aunt' and also wins the Ivanhoe Grammar
'Public Speaking Award'.
Sue-Anne completes 7 years of piano tuition. |
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1981
 Sue-Anne is presented the Queen's Scout Award,
the highest youth award possible in Scouting,
from Governor General Sir Zelman Cowen.
Tim is resident close up magician at 'Babushka
- House of Magic' (later known as 'Merlins') until 1986.
Tim studied Film and Television at
Swinburne University.
Tim writes, produces and stars in 'The Magic
Club - A Musical Magical' with a cast of teenage friends. The
show interwove the magic through a storyline and was
performed throughout Melbourne until 1984. |
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1982
 Tim tours
schools through the Northern Territory,
Western Australia and Queensland with Terry Dansic in 'Star
Magic'.
Tim appears in
the Heidelberg Theatre Company production 'The Royal Hunt of
The Sun'.
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1983
 Sue-Anne is the bass player in a rock band.
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1984
 Tim creates his own solo show
for schools 'Magic
Unlimited!', featuring the white-face mime character 'Bon',
and tours Victoria.
Sue-Anne is made Assistant Director on the the ABC
TV youth show
'Beatbox'. |
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1985
Tim founds the company 'Magic Unlimited'. |
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1986
 Tim lectures on Pyschic Fraud to the National
Skeptics Convention and exposes Uri Geller's scam on the
Zanex Mining Company.
Tim produces 'The Festival of Magic' and then
expands it into the annual 10 day festival
'Magic Week'
which features 'The Ultimate Magic Show' at the Palais Theatre.
Tim declared 'Best Close Up Magician in
Australia' at the
Australian National Magic
Convention
Tim appears as a regular guest on
'Young Talent
Time' for 3 years. |
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1987
 Tim creates and performs the role 'Head Chief
Rabbit' in 'The Wind In The Willows' staged in Melbourne's
Botanical Gardens.
He drives a $100,000 Mercedes blindfolded
for 'Magic Week'
Tim appears as a
living mannequin and a
robot in city store windows.
Sue-Anne travels to the USA, Europe, and the
UK.
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1988
 Tim is named by Harper's Bazaar
magazine 'Top New Face of 88'.
Tim performs at Hollywood's legendary
Magic
Castle.
Tim performs at Expo 88 in
Brisbane.
Sue-Anne becomes a professional cartoonist.
Sue-Anne starts training as a magician and puppeteer. Tim is buried alive in Melbourne on national television to
promote 'Magic Week'
Tim makes first of ten guest appearances on
television's
'The Midday Show'.
Tim produced
and performed in 'Moomba's World of Magic', a series
of 100 different magic shows staged in the Alexandra Gardens
over the 10 days of Moomba.
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1989
 Sue-Anne performs her first professional
magic act.
Tim creates
'The Magic School' and begins
teaching magic with Lyndsay Reitschel.
He tours Victorian
schools with his new show
'Spellbinder'.
Tim performs a 4 month season at the Comedy Cafe.
Tim returns to the Magic
Castle in Hollywood, and also appears
at the Desert Magic Seminar in Las Vegas, USA.
He produces and edits the magazine
'Australian
Magic Monthly'.
Tim escapes from a wooden crate in
Melbourne's Yarra River to promote
'Magic Week'.
Tim produced
and performed in 'The Greatest Show At The Show' in
the Dugdale Theatre at the Royal Melbourne Show. |
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1990
Tim declared 'Best Stage Magician in Australia'
at the
Australian National Magic
Convention
Tim performs his close up show 'Pure Magic',
throughout January at the Victorian Arts Centre.
Sue-Anne joins
The Australian Playhouse Studio.
Tim tours the Northern Territory with
Christof!! and Peter Gray in the cabaret show 'Every
Trick in the Book'. Tim performs in Fiji
with Andrew Gill as guest of the Sigatoka Festival.
Tim appeared on TV as the 'Bayswater Bulk Discount Ace'
Tim produced and performed in the opening shows for
Melbourne's 'World Congress Centre'. Tim
appeared regularly in 'New Vaudeville' at The Prince Patrick
Hotel. |
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1991
 Sue-Anne stars in
'The Real Inspector Hound'
and 'Macbeth' at The Riverside Theatre.
Tim tours Victorian
schools with his new show
'Dreamweaver'.
Tim is awarded 'Special Prize of the Jury'
at The World Championship of Magic
(FISM) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Tim
creates 'MagicSports',
and becomes a regular columnist for the International Magic Magazine
'Genii'. Tim produced monthly 'Showcase
Sundays' at Witches in Britches Theatre Restaurant,
where magicians met and tried out new material. |
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1992
 Sue-Anne stars in 'Dark of the Moon' at The
Riverside Theatre, and a short film for the Australian Film,
Television and Radio School.
Tim produced the record-breaking
Australian National Magic
Convention in Melbourne.
Tim purchased Bernard's Magic Shop and
produced a series of 18 Magic Teaching Videotapes starring Bryan
Wood.
Tim guest starred at the
International Brotherhood of Magicians Convention in Salt Lake
City, USA, and performed a two-week season at The
Magic
Castle in
Hollywood.
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1993
 Tim performs a straitjacket escape
suspended by his ankles from a crane in Alice Springs.
Sue-Anne stars in 'Blokes Like Him', 'King
Karakosh's Court' (where she spoke Arabic).
Sue-Anne appears as an actor on
Real Life
on Network Seven.
Tim performed a
season of Christmas shows at Pitrone's Cabaret. |
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1994
 Sue-Anne takes private tuition in
puppetry from Turoa Walmsley, and Latin Dance from Josaic
Prates.
Sue-Anne travels through Latin America.
Tim tours Victorian
schools with Michael Boyd
in his new show 'Pure Magic',
Tim creates the Magic Unlimited Magic
Course for the Showbiz department at Prahran TAFE.
Tim awarded the
Silver Medal in Close-up Magic
at The World Championship of Magic(FISM) in Yokohama, Japan. |
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1995
 Sue-Anne made her first film appearance.
Tim produced late night close-up magic shows at
Mietta's, Melbourne. Tim starred in 'International Stars of
Magic' with Jeff Hobson, Jade, and The Wilsons at
Burswood Casino, Perth. Tim returned
to the Desert Magic Seminar in Las Vegas, USA.
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1996
 Sue-Anne travels through
India and Africa and climbs Mt Kilimanjaro.
Sue-Anne appears in a Indian/Australian music video clip by top Indian digeridoo star Min2, and appears in Aboriginal sitcom 'The Masters'
on SBS.
Tim appears at the Society of American
Magicians Conference in Las Vegas, USA.
Tim co-produces the two
hour special 'Magical Mystery Tour in Australia' for Japan's
NHK TV. Tim produces the
biggest
Australian National Magic
Convention ever staged. Tim's monthly
'Showcase Sunday' nights move to The Aquarium in Brunswick
St, Fitzroy. Tim performed a season of
illusion shows in Singapore at Junction 8. |
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1997
 Tim and Sue-Anne
meet at a one-day Magic
Convention in Sydney.
Tim is the first Australian ever to perform
as a guest at The World Championship of Magic.
He appears on the Close Up Gala in Dresden, Germany.
The 'Showcase Sunday' nights return to the newly revamped
Witches in Britches. Tim and Andrew Gill
stage 'The Safety Zone Variety Show' at Melbourne Central. |
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1998 Tim and Sue-Anne are married in Sydney.
 Tim
and Sue-Anne release
'Wizards of Aus - Exposed', a calendar
featuring Sue-Anne's caricatures of Australian magicians. They
perform their new show 'Dreams & Illusions' at Caper's Dinner
Theatre.
Sue-Anne wins a
Special Award
for her stage magic at the
Australian National Magic
Convention, and
takes on magic as her full-time career.
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1999
 Tim and Sue-Anne tour Victorian and Tasmanian
schools
with the show 'Magic Unlimited's Best Show Ever!
They
perform at Sydney's Olympic Homebush Stadium, levitate a car in
Perth, and perform at Parliament House, Canberra.
They act as
Magic Consultants for television's 'Blue Heelers'.
They produce and perform a two-person, three hour
show to see in New Year's Eve. |
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2000
 They
are profiled in 'The Two of Us' - which later appears as a
top-selling book. They perform a return season of 'Magic
Unlimited's Best Show Ever!' through Victorian
schools, and a
sell-out season of 'Cunning Stunts' for the Melbourne
International Comedy Festival.
They co-edit the national magic
magazine AMM2000.
Tim and Sue-Anne appear as special guests
at the
Society of American Magicians Convention in Milwaukee,
USA, and perform throughout Europe. |
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2001
 They are invited to appear as special guest
lecturers at Hank Lee's Cape Cod Conclave, The Battle
of the Magicians, and the prestigious, invitation-only
convention for close-up magicians, FFFF in New York, where
they are voted 'Most Valuable Participants' by their peers.
The first time ever a duo has been awarded such an honour.
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2002
 Tim and Sue-Anne
lecture all over the USA and are special guests at The World
Magic Seminar and
MagiFest.
They lecture in Paris, the UK, and Munich (where they perform with
The Flicking Fingers) and are guests (with Tommy Wonder) at the South African Magic Championships. |
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2003
 Tim and Sue-Anne travel
the USA with their 'Driving U.S. Insane'
lecture tour,
including performing at the Winter Carnival of Magic in Tennessee,
and the SAM Convention in Las Vegas.
They bring
The
Flicking Fingers to Australia for two conference weekends in
Melbourne and Sydney.
They head to
The World Championship of Magic
in Den Haag where the perform on the Gala Show, introduce
'MagicSports' to the world, and Tim becomes Australia's first
representative on the FISM Jury.
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2004
Sue-Anne wins
'Best Stage Act in
Australia' for her Jeannie tribute act.
Tim produces the 29th
Australian National Magic
Convention and Ellis & Webster
are guest lecturers and performers at the New Zealand Magic
Convention.
Tim and Sue-Anne travel to Seoul,
South Korea to perform as guest artists on Lee Eun-Gyeol's
'Magic Concert'.
Sue-Anne visits
Hogwarts in
the UK.
Tim and Sue-Anne perform three
shows daily at Melbourne's Luna Park.
They set a new Guiness World Record for
'The World's Longest
Magic Show' (75 hours non-stop!)
They both appear on the television
shows 'Mornings
with Kerri-Anne' and
'Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton'.
Released 3 new teaching DVDs for
the magic community: 'Runaround Sue', 'Ellis in Wonderland',
'24 Years of Living Next Door to Ellis', as well as
Sue-Anne's trick 'Black Light' and Tim's 'Tim Card Poker
Deal'.
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2005
 Sue-Anne appears as Jeannie on Channel
Nine's 'Starstruck' TV show, 'The Price is Right' and Tim &
Sue-Anne's home is showcased on
'Location Location: Amazing Homes'.
Tim and Sue-Anne are guest
lecturers and performers at the first ever 'Merlin's Close
Up Magic Invitational'.
Sue-Anne is nominated as 'Best
Actress' for her role in 'Speed Dating 101', an Australian
film in the
'15/15 International Film Festival'.
Sue-Anne performs a season
on stage at The
Magic
Castle in
Hollywood while Tim performs in the Close Up Room.
Sue-Anne
makes several appearances as 'Jeannie' on Channel Nine's
game show 'The Price is Right'.
Tim &
Sue-Anne lecture around the USA and appear as guests at FFFF,
Hank Lee's Cape Cod Conclave, MAWNY, Tannen's New York, The
International Battle of the Magicians.
Tim &
Sue-Anne present 'Magic Unlimited's Halloween Spooktacular'. |
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2006
Ellis & Webster perform at
The Royal Melbourne Show.
Tim performs
Magic on Radio
with Darren James and Tony Leonard on 3AW.
Tim & Sue-Anne nominated for 'Lecture
of the Year' by the Academy of Magical Arts. The award is
voted on by 5000 members of The
Magic
Castle and presented on April 1
in Hollywood.
Sue-Anne plays a role in the
multi-award-winning Orsino
Images film 'Damien' made for the
'15/15 International Film Festival'.
Tim & Sue-Anne act in the Orsino
Images film 'My Life or Something Like It', made for
The Geelong Shoot Out.
Ellis & Webster perform a public
show at 'The Comic's Lounge' in Melbourne.
Tim & Sue-Anne head to Sweden for
the
The World Championship of Magic.
Sue-Anne Webster featured in
articles in Fernwood
Magazine and the Herald-Sun
HOME.
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2007
 Tim
Ellis performs his new solo show 'Poker
in the Face' for the Melbourne International Comedy
Festival.
Tim Ellis & Sue-Anne
Webster featured on the internationally screened television
program 'The 23rd FISM World Championship of Magic'
Tim Ellis & Sue-Anne
Webster individually listed in the magic history book 'Dictionnaire de la Prestidigition' published in France.
They are the only living Australian magicians profiled in
the book. The only other Australians listed were Les & Esme Levante, Murray,
Jean Hugard, Percy Abbott and Al Wheatley.
Tim & Sue-Anne are
also individually profiled in the Australian Magic History
book 'Deceptions Downunder' by Brian McCullagh.
Sue-Anne writes and
stars in the show 'Private Eye' with Anthony DeMasi, Enzo
Ficco and Lee Cohen for the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
Tim & Sue-Anne are
guest performers and lecturers at the 4th Asian Magic Convention
in Hong Kong. Tim also sits on the Close Up Magic Jury and
Sue-Anne on the Stage Magic Jury.
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2008
Tim and Sue-Anne travel
to Bangkok and Hong Kong for corporate shows.
Tim Ellis performs his new solo show 'Something About
Needles & Razorblades' for the Melbourne International
Comedy Festival and makes headline news when a trick
"allegedly" went wrong and the audience was forced to sign
secrecy agreements.
Tim & Sue-Anne perform 'Illusionarium'
for two weeks as part of the Melbourne International Comedy
Festival sponsored by radio station LIGHT FM.
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