After-dinner set piece
Twenty to thirty minutes, seated, for the full room — placed after the last speech and before the room breaks up. The most-booked Chicago format.
From $2,500
A mentalist in Chicago performs with thought rather than props — a freely made choice anticipated, a word a room arrives at without discussing it. Matteo Cammisa performs mentalism at Chicago corporate dinners, private celebrations and events, close-up or as a seated piece for the full room. From $2,500.
Why mentalism lands hard in this city
Chicago audiences are professionally sceptical — trading floors, courtrooms and operating theatres teach people to distrust neat explanations. Mentalism does not fight that scepticism; it feeds on it. The piece is built around the audience's own decisions, and the harder a guest tries to be unpredictable, the better the room's story afterwards.
It is presented honestly. No psychic claims, no pretence — psychology, suggestion, attention and technique, performed as exactly that. A room of Chicago executives will happily be fooled brilliantly and will not accept being told something untrue; the honest framing is not a disclaimer, it is why the performance works on them at all.
Two shapes, usually combined: close-up mentalism moving through drinks — a guest thinks of something, says nothing, and the answer arrives anyway — and the seated piece after dinner, twenty to thirty minutes where the whole room participates at once.
Nobody is exposed. Participation means thinking of something, choosing, holding an object — never being brought up to be the joke. In a room that contains a firm's partners and its biggest client, that judgement is most of the job.
How it is booked in Chicago
Close-up mentalism through drinks
The same material at conversational distance, group by group, while the room fills. Usually booked alongside the seated piece rather than instead of it.
From $2,500
Stage show with projection
For large rooms — the seated piece extended, with close-up work projected live so the back of the room sees what the front row sees.
On request
Where it fits
Corporate dinners and client evenings that need one moment the whole room shares — the format that generates argument rather than applause, and the argument is the deliverable.
Private celebrations where the host wants something nobody at the table has seen: a milestone birthday in a Gold Coast home, an anniversary dinner for twenty.
Mentalism is the most language-dependent form of the art — the material is verbal. Matteo performs it in English, Italian and Hungarian.
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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Frequently asked
What does a mentalist do at an event?
Works with the audience's thoughts and choices rather than with objects: a decision anticipated before it is made, something a guest has only thought of revealed anyway, a full room arriving at the same word. At a Chicago event it usually runs as close-up through drinks plus a seated twenty-to-thirty-minute piece after dinner.
Is it real mind reading?
No, and it is never presented as that. It is psychology, suggestion, attention and technique, performed honestly as a performance. Chicago rooms in particular reward the honest framing — an audience that knows it is being fooled brilliantly enjoys it far more than one being asked to believe something untrue.
How many guests does mentalism need?
The seated piece works from about twenty guests to several hundred; below twenty, close-up mentalism at the table is the better shape. For very large Chicago rooms the piece is extended and projected so the detail reads from the back.
Does anyone get embarrassed?
No — that is a specific commitment, not a general reassurance. Participation means thinking, choosing or holding something, never being made the joke. In client-facing rooms, where nobody can afford to look foolish in front of people they do business with, this matters more than the material.
How much does it cost to book Matteo Cammisa?
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.
Is Matteo available for events worldwide?
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.
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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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