On July 5th, 2011, I made my debut appearance at The Magic Castle in Hollywood, CA.

The Close-up Gallery, where I performed, is the most intimate performance space in The Castle.  Tiered seating for an audience of twenty-two provides the perfect venue for close-up sleight-of-hand magic.

The intense performing schedule — you’re booked to do 4 shows a night for a week! — certainly serve to focus one’s efforts.  It doesn’t take long for the act to get “tight” and for the creative juices to start flowing.  Unlike the walk-around entertaining I perform at corporate or private events, in The Close-Up Gallery I presented a theatrical-style close-up show.

Click here to see a highlight.

Thanks to everyone who attended. 

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“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

— Mark Victor Hansen

The Art of Manliness is a wonderful and inspiring website where they are reviving this lost art.  In they’re ongoing series, So You Want My Job, they share some unique careers men have chosen to pursue.  My contribution appeared in August 2010.

Schedule at The Magic Castle is posted six-weeks in advance.  I’m officially on "the bill."

Very excited to announce I’ll be making my debut appearance at The Magic Castle in Hollywood, CA.  I’ll be performing in The Close-Up Gallery from July 4th - July 10th. 

Check back for more details.

Every once in a while someone comes along and changes things.

Enter, The Professor.

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe