Close-up magic in Miami is performed guest to guest — at the table, in the guest's hands, with no stage and no sound. Matteo Cammisa is a Miami close-up magician — resident magician at Kiki on the River from 2023 to 2026 — performing at weddings, corporate evenings and private events across the city.
Miami rooms are loud, late and visually competitive. A restaurant on the river at eleven on a Saturday is not a theatre, and a performance built for a seated audience does not survive it. Close-up magic does, because it does not need quiet — it needs proximity, and the guest holding the card is eighteen inches away.
Three seasons of tableside work at Kiki on the River is the reason this page exists rather than being an assertion about a market. Several nights a week, table after table, in a room that never stops moving — that is a very specific apprenticeship, and it is not the same skill as performing a booked set for a quiet audience.
The practical version for a planner: no stage, no microphone, no soundcheck, no changeover, no load-in. On a rooftop, a boat, a restaurant's private room or a Brickell office floor cleared for the evening, the requirements are identical, which is to say none.
Miami's other structural feature is the guest list. Rooms here are frequently trilingual and frequently international. Matteo performs in English, Italian and Hungarian, which does not cover Spanish — worth saying plainly — but does mean an international table is not left watching.
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
A set act commits the room to one thing at one time. In Miami, where guests arrive across a two-hour window and the evening has no single centre, that is the wrong shape. A performer moving through the room reaches people as they arrive rather than requiring them to already be there.
It also photographs, which in this market is not a secondary consideration. Reaction shots from a close-up performance are frequently the strongest candid images from an evening.
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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There is no objective answer, and anyone claiming the title should be treated carefully. What can be checked is the record: Matteo Cammisa held the resident magician position at Kiki on the River from 2023 to 2026, and is a member of The Magic Circle, FISM and the Society of American Magicians. Judge on the residency and the membership rather than on the adjective.
From $2,500, quoted per event rather than per hour. Local part-time performers in the Miami market quote considerably less, and that is a real difference in what is being booked rather than a pricing gap to negotiate over. The figure moves with the length of the evening and the format, not primarily with guest count.
Yes, and those are among the most common Miami settings. Close-up magic needs no stage, no sightlines, no power and no sound, so venues that defeat a stage act — a moving boat, a narrow rooftop, a restaurant's private room — present no problem. Loud music is the only genuine constraint, and it argues for scheduling earlier rather than for not booking.
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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