Magali Bancel, born October 23, 1980 in Lyon, France, is a circus artist, circus director and development manager for circus at the Riksteatern. She has worked in the circus world since she was 17, including as a rubber artist, aerial acrobat, quick-change artist and Magic Creator. She is educated at the Académie Fratellini in Paris, the circus academy The Circus Space in London and the circus academy CNAC in Châlons-en-Champagne.

Together with her mother and siblings, she established a circus company, Compagnie Isis. As a circus performer, Magali Bancel has participated in various productions and for various institutions such as Gothenburg Opera, Östgöteatern, Royal Opera and Cirkus Cirkör.

Since 2021, Magali Bancel has been working at the Riksteatern after the government in autumn 2020 gave the Riksteatern an expanded mission with a focus on developing the contemporary circus. Through her mission at the Riksteatern, Magali Bancel works to ensure that circus art reaches all over Sweden and that the contemporary circus flourishes.