Boston is one of the few American cities where companies search for a corporate magician by name — and its rooms are among the most intellectually demanding anywhere. Matteo Cammisa performs at Boston client evenings, biotech and finance events.
Boston's corporate rooms are filled from the deepest pool of researchers, physicians, engineers and academics in the country — Kendall Square biotech, the hospitals, the funds, the universities' own advancement dinners. This audience does not suspend disbelief; it interrogates it. That is not a problem to manage. It is the whole opportunity.
Magic performed close-up for scientists produces a specific, reliable result: the room turns into a peer-review session that cannot reach a conclusion. Guests who politely endure most entertainment will argue about a card for forty-five minutes, and the evening's host gets credit for all of it.
The formats are the standard corporate pair. Close-up through arrivals and dinner-service intervals — zero runtime taken, nothing for the venue to provide. Then, where the evening wants one shared moment, a seated mentalism piece after dinner, which lands unusually hard on an audience trained to believe its own decisions are rational.
Venues run from the Seaport's glass rooms and Back Bay hotels to the Harvard and MIT clubs — several of which have rules about staging and sound that this format simply never triggers.
Matteo moves through the room during drinks or dinner and performs for small groups at a time. No stage, no microphone, no soundcheck — the whole show happens at arm's length. Typically booked from 30 minutes to two hours, sized to the cocktail hour or the dinner it covers.
From $2,500
A seated, focused piece for the full room, built around thought, choice and influence rather than props. Runs 20 to 30 minutes and works as the pivot between dinner and the rest of the evening.
From $3,000
A full theatrical set for a seated audience, with close-up work projected live to screen where the room is large enough to need it.
On request
It cannot delay anything — no stage, no audio, no lighting cue, no rehearsal — and it can be added after the programme is locked.
It is discreet enough for rooms where donors, physicians or limited partners are present: nobody is exposed, nobody is the joke.
The performance is honest about being a performance — psychology, attention, technique — which is the only framing a Boston audience will accept, and the reason it works on them.
Matteo Cammisa is a member of The Magic Circle in London, of FISM — the international federation of magic societies — and of the Society of American Magicians. Twenty years of performing, more than 500 events, over 30 countries.
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Entertainment that survives a sceptical, analytical room. Boston corporate audiences — biotech, medicine, finance, academia — interrogate what they see, which is why close-up magic and mentalism outperform staged acts here: the impossibility happens in the guest's own hands, and the audience's attempt to solve it becomes the evening's conversation.
It does not ask for a slot. Close-up works through arrivals and the service intervals at dinner, taking zero minutes from the running order; the seated mentalism piece, where booked, needs twenty to thirty minutes after the last speech. Nothing requires a stage, sound or rehearsal.
Yes — with the specific commitment that nobody is embarrassed and nobody is made the joke. Participation means thinking of something, choosing, or holding an object. In rooms where the guests are donors, physicians or limited partners, that judgement matters more than the material.
Bookings start from $2,500. The figure moves with the format, the length of the evening, the number of guests and where in the world the event is. Fees are quoted per event rather than per hour, because what you are booking is presence across a window of the evening, not a block of stage time. Tell Matteo the date, the city and roughly how many guests, and you will have a firm figure within 24 hours.
For a specific date in high season, three to six months is comfortable. Shorter notice is often possible and worth asking about: dates open up, and Matteo holds a small amount of the calendar for late corporate bookings. The honest answer is that the date either exists or it does not, and one message settles it.
Yes — Matteo Cammisa performs worldwide, year-round, and has done so at more than 500 events across over 30 countries. Wherever the event is, send the date, the city and roughly how many guests, and you will have availability and a firm figure within 24 hours. Where travel applies, it is quoted separately and transparently.
Send the date, the city and roughly how many guests. You will have availability and a firm figure within 24 hours.
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