Marisa Carnesky

Welcome to the world of Olivier Award winning Marisa Carnesky, reknowned showwoman and magical performance artiste.

Marisa has been creating spectacular and kooky shows for over a decade, mixing illusions, theatre and burlesque with subjects both serious and bizarre.

She is currently touring her latest show Magic War, (see calendar for dates) which uses extreme magic tricks to uncover conspiracies of how illusions are used in war.

Carnesky’s Ghost Train is Marisa’s best known and biggest show. A huge vintage styled fairground ride with moving carriages and sets, featuring live disappearing ladies, it was first seen in London’s Brick Lane in 2004. After touring in the UK and Europe it is now being rebuilt as a permanent show in Blackpool’s historic Winter Gardens, opening this autumn (2008) as part of the Illuminations.

Marisa Carnesky was recently awarded an AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship and is currently a fellow at the National Fairground Archive in the University of Sheffiled.
Marisa Carnesky also tours her other solo shows and works on a project basis with theatre, dance and circus companies including Duckie and the Insect Circus.

Marisa Carnesky trained originally as a dancer and choreographer at the Laban
Centre and then at the University of Brighton. She has been creating performance
projects and theatre since 1993 and her shown her work extensively in the USA, Central and Eastern Europe, Israel and Japan. Her major works include the solos Jewess Tattooess and Magic War and the group shows Cest Barbican and Carnesky’s Ghost Train.