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Jeff Sheridan (born 1948) is an American magician who started his career by specializing in street magic. Sheridan began working in New York City around 1967. He studied briefly at the School of the Visual Arts in NYC in the late 1960s. [1] He authored the 1977 book, Street Magic, An Illustrated History of Wandering Magicians and Their ...
New York based artist and magician Jeff Sheridan is regarded as one of the pre-eminent U.S. street magicians to emerge from the surge in street performance artistry which began in the late '60s. He authored the 1977 book, Street Magic , taught Jeff McBride and allegedly was one of the performers who inspired and taught the young David Blaine ...
Street magic is a form of street performing or busking that employs a hybrid of stage magic, platform, and close-up magic, usually performed 'in the round' or surrounded by the audience. Notable modern street magic performers include Jeff Sheridan, Gazzo, and Wittus Witt.
This is a list of magicians/illusionists, prestidigitators, mentalists, escapologists, and other practitioners of stage magic. For the list of supernatural magicians, see List of occultists. Magicians are listed by the most common name used in performance. Magicians' actual names, when applicable, follow in parentheses.
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1998 Street Magic by Jeff Sheridan and Edward Claflin (published by Kaufman) 1998 Five Times Five: Scotland By Peter Duffie (published by Kaufman) 1998 The Now You See It, Now You Don't! Notebook Written and Illustrated by Bill Tarr (published by Kaufman) 1998 Stodare: The Enigma Variations By Dr. Edwin Dawes (published by Kaufman)
In the 1950s, the then members decided the name of the club was childish and changed it to FAME Future American Magical Entertainers and included Dick Brooks, Ken Silverman (who became a Pulitzer Prize winning author and wrote a biography of Houdini), John Hope, Robert A. Olson, (Hope and Olson later wrote a column on coin magic in Hugard's ...