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Let's start in 1969:
When I was in 6th grade at Winston Churchill Elementary my teacher Mrs. Schloff had all of the students in the class write a book titled "My Life Story". It was to tell who we are, about our family, pets, and what we wanted to do in life. I wrote that when I grew up I wanted to be an announcer, and a famous magician....
I still have the book, and what I hoped for as a child. Well, maybe everything except that famous part.

Growing up in Royal Oak Michigan the son of NBC-Detroit TV personality Hugh Copland I started acting as a child in television and theatre with an extreme interest in magic. I was the youngest magician to perform at the 1st Annual Oakland Mall Magic Week in 1971, and also appeared doing magic on Detroit's Oopsy the Clown television show. As a teenager, I became active in community and high school theatre graduating from Clarence M. Kimball High in 1976 with thespian honors while performing in a professional touring production of Jesus Christ Superstar. During the early years as a young struggling professional actor, I waited tables, was a new car porter, property manager, shipping & receiveing manager, trolley tour guide, suit salesman, fast food manager, cleaning man, delivered pizza, and drove a taxi. I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but as an actor, I figured I could do just about anything... just act the part. All that true life experience and aspiration eventually led to a career in stand-up comedy and broadcasting using the name Guy Austin with my own morning radio shows in Mississippi, Alaska, and Alabama. In 1998, I became the morning news anchor for the Mississippi News Network providing news to over 70 stations across the state. In 2005 I resigned from the network and moved to Michigan to marry my high school sweetheart Diana. Since then, I've retained my real last name, appeared in three movies (The Rain, Demoted, and Hasidic Dreams), a Nike commercial, the music video "One Trillion Dollars" for the band Anti-Flag, am doing voice over for film, and radio & television commercials, have had supporting roles in several theatre productions, and am performing comedy & magic in clubs, and for corporate and private events.

Book me for your next event and let me make your entertainment worries disappear!

Please check out my newest site www.MagicGuyComedy.com

Visit my Voice Over site www.MotorCityVoiceOver.com

Be my friend on MySpace at www.myspace.com/guycoplandcomedy

Piece out....