Matteo Cammisa is a Fort Lauderdale magician for corporate evenings, private events and hotel venues across the city — a market he works regularly. Close-up magic performed guest to guest, with nothing required from the room.
Fort Lauderdale sits between two markets and behaves like neither. It has Miami's waterfront and hotel infrastructure without Miami's scale or its late-night centre of gravity, and it has Palm Beach's private-club density without the four-month season. The result is a steadier calendar of corporate evenings, private celebrations and hotel programmes across most of the year.
That mix suits a performer who genuinely works this market. Matteo has performed regularly across the city — private events, corporate functions and hotel venues including the Marriott — and at the Jay's Steakhouse VIP pre-opening in May 2025, an evening that World Red Eye covered by name.
The venue reality here is water and terraces: waterfront restaurants, hotel decks, boats and private homes along the canals. None of them accommodate a stage, a sound system or a lighting rig, and several of them move. Close-up magic needs none of those things, which is why it is the format that actually works on this coastline rather than the one that has to be made to fit.
Guest counts are typically 40 to 150 — the scale at which a performer can genuinely reach everyone across an evening instead of reaching a portion and relying on them to describe it.
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
Corporate evenings and client dinners, where the room is small enough to reach completely and discretion matters more than volume.
Hotel and restaurant programmes — the format Matteo has worked most often in this city.
Private celebrations and weddings, through cocktail hour and dinner service.
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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No performer can award themselves that, so the useful answer is the record. Matteo Cammisa performs regularly across Fort Lauderdale — private events, corporate functions and hotel venues including the Marriott — and performed at the Jay's Steakhouse VIP pre-opening in May 2025, which World Red Eye covered by name. He is a member of The Magic Circle, FISM and the Society of American Magicians. Judge on the record rather than the adjective.
From $2,500, quoted per event rather than per hour. The figure moves with the length of the evening and the format rather than with guest count — an evening for fifty and an evening for a hundred and thirty are closer in price than most people expect.
Those are among the most common settings here, and close-up magic is one of the few formats that genuinely works on them. Nothing is set up, nothing needs securing, no power is required and there is no sound system to fail. On a moving boat it is effectively the only practical option.
Almost everything except the word. A party magician performs a set: the same routine, in the same order, whoever is in the room. What Matteo does is closer to hosting — the material is chosen live for the people in front of him, it is built to be photographed, and it is timed around your evening rather than interrupting it. The practical difference shows up in the details: how he dresses, how he works with your planner, whether he needs anything from the venue, and what the room sounds like ten minutes after he leaves.
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.
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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