Performer    

The public, the press and his peers have recognized David as one of the world’s foremost sleight-of-hand artists.

For the public, David has developed, along with Canadian broadcasting icon Patrick Watson, three theatrical works - The Conjuror, The Conjuror’s Suite, and Tricks – that were staged at theater festivals and for commercial runs. The productions reflect David’s exploration of magic as a theatrical art and featured music, sets and costumes by such noted composers and designers as John Lang, William Schmuck, Bonnie Beecher and Kelly Wolf. The Conjuror recreated the great illusions from the Golden Age of Magic (1875-1925). In The Conjuror’s Suite, David presented sophisticated sleight-of-hand inspired by artists such as Hofzinser and Robert-Houdin and their salons of magic. Tricks was a post-modern presentation of 20th century conjuring, particularly work influenced by Dai Vernon.

David’s personal performance highlights include two seasons at the Shaw Festival, a season at the Charlottetown Festival, a four-month commercial run in Toronto at Theatre ROM, performances at the Canadian Embassy in Paris and Tokyo, the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, the official opening of Magic Circle Theatre in London, the 100th Anniversary Gala Show of Society of American Magicians at the Hammerstein Theatre in New York, and being the subject of a feature

documentary – A Conjuror In The Making – for Breakfast with the Arts for the A&E Network and Adrianne Clarkson Presents for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

David is developing a new show for Magicana that will have its premiere in Toronto in the fall of 2010.

For the private sector, David has performed at special events throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Japan. Whether it is a program of intimate magic for fifty people or a full stage production augmented by rear-screen projection for an audience of a thousand, David captures the crowd. He draws on his vast repertoire of the critically acclaimed magic from his stage shows and then adds that special something to create the perfect presentation for each particular group or function.

David may call on the assistance of two women to help him saw a man in half, program his computer to read the minds of five people in the audience, motivate inanimate objects to dance, swallow needles and regurgitate them threaded, pass his bound hands through a Samurai sword held by a spectator, conjure a ghost, or even suspend a member of the audience in mid-air!

Each performance is designed to feed the mind with mystery, ignite the imagination and generate laughter.