Selected theatre, performance art, and variety performances:
(Tickets on sale now) Enchantments magic and circus show at the Arlene Francis Center in Santa Rosa, 2pm and 8pm, 17 February 2023.
(Upcoming) Magic and juggling for Winterblast, 3PM-8PM, 4 November 2023.
Magic for a private event, 26 August 2023.
Magic and juggling for the 40th Annual Round Valley Blackberry Festival, 19-20 August 2023.
Magic for a private event, 1 August 2023.
Magic performance for the 4th of July Celebration in Calistoga, CA, 4 July 2023.
Magic for a private event, 9 June 2023.
Magic for a private event, 27 May 2023.
Magic for a private event, 22 April 2023.
Magic for the Bodega Bay Chamber of Commerce, 20 April 2023.
“Professor Pepper’s Magic Show” at Afternoon Tea in the Museum of Wonders for the 22nd annual Edwardian Ball at the Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, 4 February 2023.
“Enchantment,” magic performance for Summerfield Waldorf School, home of Circus Waldissima, 1 February 2023.
Variety performance for a private event in Napa, California, 21 January 2023.
Magic performance for the 75th Anniversary Celebration of Millbrae, California, 12-1:30PM, 14 January 2023.
“Contemporary Magic: Pedagogy, Performance Vocabulary and Apparatus Design,” a praxis performance presentation at Kinetic Arts, Oakland, California, 8 December 2022.
“On the Table Off the Table” at FADO Performance Art Centre, Toronto, ON, 24 September 2022.
Magic show for the Santa Rosa French American Charter School, Santa Rosa, CA, 20 August 2022.
Nuit Magique, strolling close-up magic for Leucan’s charity fundraiser to help children afflicted with cancer at the TOHU theatre, an event organized and directed by Toxique Trottoir, Montreal, QC, 29 October 2019.
Magic for the Everywhere / ARTery Pavilion Stage, Black Rock City, Nevada, 27 August 2019, 1PM.
“Fascination,” an interactive optical illusion installation for Burning Man 2019, 25 August 2019 to 2 September 2019.
Magic for Montréal Complètement Cirque, the 4, 6, 7, 13, and 14 of July 2019.
Magic Consultation for John Witte and Félix Martin’s duo juggling-magic act for the National Circus School’s show Où vont les fleurs at la TOHU, Montreal, May 29 to June 9, 2019.
“Orbit,” experimental magic performance for LePARC’s Embodied Interventions at Concordia University’s Black Box Theatre, Montreal, 19 May 2019, 2PM.
Parlour and close-up magic for Make Believe: The Secret Library of Mr. Prud’homme at Massey College, a Canada Council for the Arts exhibition curated by Heather Jessup & Claire Battershill, Toronto, Ontario, 3 May 2019.
Private event, gala show, Montréal, 23 March 2019.
University of Waterloo Juggling Festival Show, Waterloo, Ontario, 16 March 2019, 7:30PM.
“Professor Pepper” strolling, parlour, and stage magic for the 19th Annual Edwardian Ball at the Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, January 25-26, 2019.
Parlour magic for Café Concret #32, directed by Mark Sussman, Studio 303, 15 December 2018.
Cabaret magic act at Montreal’s National Circus School for its Cabarouette, 3 November 2018.
Soirée Foraine, strolling close-up magic for Leucan’s charity fundraiser that raised $461,250 to help children afflicted with cancer at the TOHU theatre, an event organized and directed by Toxique Trottoir, Montreal, QC, 1 November 2018.
Dracula’s Guest, strolling close-up magic and a stage performance at the Slovenian Hall, San Francisco, CA, 13 October 2018.
Pícaro, magic consultation for Carlos Alexis Cruz’s solo show and its creation residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre, Manhattan, New York, April 6, 2018.
Magic performance at La Cinémathèque de Toulouse as part of the Illusion en jeu film and performance cycle, 30 March, 2018.
Particle # B, magic consultation for Kerttu Pussinen’s one-woman show developed at the TOHU, the National Circus School in Montréal and D’arts et de rêves in Sutton, QC. Third residence and first public showing at Théatre Valspec, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC, 7 September 2017.
“Enchantment,” an installation illusion, close-up magic and parlour performance in collaboration with musicians, visual artists and puppeteers at Santa Cruz’s Apricity gallery, February 25, 2017
“Magic for One,” thirty performances of a one-on-one magic show for spectators at San Francisco’s Fog City Magic Festival, EXIT Theater, January 26-27, 2017
“Mr. Dark,” a nineteenth-century stage illusion for the 17th annual Edwardian Ball at the Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, January 20-21, 2017
“The Circus Card Trick,” Praxis performance lecture for the international colloquium “Magic. Machines. Media.” and the Deceptive Arts research group, Cerisy-la-Salle, France (August 2016)
“On Magic and the Supernatural,” Maison Notman House, Montreal (July 2016)
Sisi, co-devisor and magic consultant for Ars Mechanica, residency at the Harbourfront Centre (April 2016)
Houdini and Doyle: World of Wonders magic consultation (for creation, performance, and history) for Global TV’s 10-episode web series, (January to April, 2016)
“Tripmas,” creative magic direction of twelve site-specific acts for Duncan/Channon, San Francisco, (November 6, 2015)
“Mustachio,” cabaret at James Alan’s Magic Tonight (March 22, 2015)
“Flowers from Paradise” for Random House Canada (2014)
Show and Tell Alexander Bell, co-divisor and magic consultant, Summerworks (juried theatre festival) in Toronto (2013)
“Experimental Magic Manifesto 2.0,” Stanford University (2013)
“Soldi” as The Great Mustachio at Lunacy Cabaret (2013)
“The Brazen Head,” adapter and performer, Massey College’s Feast for the Founding Master (2012)
“Telephony,” created and performed as Emir Tops for Fucked Up’s Long Winter concert series at Toronto’s Great Hall (2012)
“Exits and Entrances,” New Gendai Workstation (2011)
“High School Reunions Are Weird,” at MothUp Toronto (2011)