Tampa Bay corporate events run at a scale where a performer can genuinely reach every guest across an evening — typically 60 to 150 people rather than a convention hall. Matteo Cammisa performs close-up magic and mentalism at Tampa client evenings, awards dinners and corporate celebrations.
At a convention-scale event, close-up magic reaches a proportion of the audience and the rest hear about it. At Tampa's typical corporate scale — a client evening for ninety, an awards dinner for a hundred and forty — it reaches effectively everyone. That is a materially different outcome for the same booking.
It also changes what the performance can do. When the room is reachable, the material can build across the evening rather than resetting at each group, and a seated piece at the end lands on an audience that has already had something happen to them personally.
Tampa's corporate base — finance, healthcare, logistics, professional services — books mostly client-facing evenings rather than internal celebrations. That raises the bar on discretion: nobody in the room can be embarrassed, and the host has to stay the host.
The venue mix is private dining rooms, hotel function space and waterfront properties. None of them require anything of this format, which is the practical reason it gets booked in rooms that were not designed for entertainment.
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 changes the dynamic in a room where everyone knows they are being sold to, and it gives the account team something to talk about that is not the account.
It is discreet: no branding to negotiate, no volume, nothing that forces a conversation to stop, and no guest put in an uncomfortable position in front of people they do business with.
It needs nothing from the venue, which matters in private dining rooms and waterfront properties that have no stage and no AV to speak of.
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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At Tampa's typical scale — 60 to 150 guests — the strongest option is entertainment that reaches every person in the room rather than performing at them. Close-up magic through drinks and dinner does that, and a seated mentalism piece afterwards gives the evening one shared moment. Neither needs a stage, sound or runtime.
It is one of the most common bookings for exactly that. The register is adjusted for a client-facing room: no guest is singled out, nobody is made the joke, and the host stays the host. There is no branding to negotiate and no volume, so conversations are never forced to stop.
That is the usual setting and it is the easier one. No stage, no microphone, no lighting change and no power are required. A private dining room is in fact a better room for this than a ballroom, because every guest is within reach.
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.
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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