Entertaining Magic for all Occasions

George Younts is an award winning magician whose performances weave together acting, storytelling, clowning, theatre and poetry via mysterious miracles aiming to mystify and entertain all ages and backgrounds. 

His performance experience includes restaurants, schools, preschools, birthday parties, street fairs, colleges, outdoor parties, theatres, libraries, retirement communities, fundraising galas, art festivals and correctional institutions.  His magic is adaptable to all ages and stages and has won awards at the Magic Capital Close-up Convention in Michigan and Magic at the Beach Convention in South Carolina.

Originally from Illinois, George is a classical trained actor and has toured nationally.  He has also worked as director, designer, producer, technician, playwright and tours in a one-man adaptation of A Christmas Carol during the Holidays.    

A theatre teacher at the Charleston County School of the Arts with over 30 years of experience he taught at the BAK Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FL before joining CCSOA in 1999 and is a recipient of the South Carolina Theatre Association's Outstanding Theatre Educator Award.    

A graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, he coaches The Fighting Gnomes- CCSOA's Improv Comedy Troupe, teaches stage tech and leads workshops at state/regional conferences.  In addition, he has taught Shakespeare, Improv, Acting and Magic  in the SC Correctional System. 

His professional affiliations have included- Actors' Equity, Southeastern Theatre Conference, International Brotherhood of Magicians and the National Endowment for the Arts.