A magician's assistant is a performer in a magic act who is not billed as the magician or principal name in the act. See more

Assistants have been part of magic shows for most of the recorded history of magic as a performance art. Despite their often crucial role in magic acts they, and the work they do, have suffered from negative public perceptions… See more

• George White (Lifetime assistant to Howard Thurston)
• Gay Blackstone (wife and assistant to Harry Blackstone Jr.)
• Nani Darnell (wife and assistant to Mark Wilson)… See more

• The novel The Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett follows the character Sabine who was assistant to her magician husband Parsifal. After Parsifal's death Sabine is left to unravel the secrets of his life.
• The movie The Prestige (2006) … See more

• Box Jumpers (2004) was a two-part radio documentary series about magicians' assistants that was made for BBC Radio 4 and presented by Debbie McGee.
• Women in Boxes (2007) is a feature-length documenta… See more

• Target girl
• Damsel in distress (with regard to stereotyped female victim imagery) See more

• "Women In Magic", an article by Dennis Regling at BellaOnline.
• Jan Jones (editor), The Magician's Assistant, pub. 1982
• Frances Marshall (editor), Those Beautiful Dames, pub. Magic Inc. (1984), ASIN: B00072FQ5U… See more