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Lisa Menna, is an AmericanCanadian corporate and parlour magician. She has won several major awards, including Best Corporate Magician[1] and Best Performer at Corporate Events [2] as well as performing at many conventions and trade shows worldwide. Her success is mainly due to her excellent sleight of hand skills and comedic routine, creating a sense of immersion in the performance. Lisa graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in Psychology.

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[edit] earlyon

Lisa started practicing magic at a very young age. "When I was eight years old in Humble, Texas, my brother went through a rodeo phase. One afternoon, he decided to try calf roping, only we did not have a calf. Somehow I ended up wrapped up in duct tape and left in the closet. The next morning I looked up Houdini in the school library."[3] She studied magic at the library, learning from greats such as Bill Severn and eventually started performing as a magic clown, doing a few thousand birthday parties while honing her both her people skills and her sleight of hand. To pay her way through college, she performed

[edit] Awards

First place awards include:

  • Tannen's International Magicians Competition in New York City
  • Las Vegas World Seminar (Presented by Lance Burton)
  • International Battle of Magicians (twice, 1996 and 1998)
  • Columbus Magi Fest
  • Kleinman Incentive Award, Most Promising Youth (SAM National Convention)
  • Best Published Trick, Award for Creativity (Linking Ring magazine)
  • Youngest magician to write One-Man-Parade (twenty page exposition of original effects) in Linking Ring magazine

[edit] Books

  • Overlap
  • Joshua Jay's Magic Atlas
  • A Teens Routine
  • Session

His award-winning[citation needed] book Joshua Jay's Magic Atlas has been translated into German, Japanese, and French.

[edit] Videos

  • Close Up, Up Close: Volumes 1 - 3

[edit] Columns

  • Talk About Tricks (Magic magazine)
  • Talk About Tricks - 3 DVD Set - Joshua Jay

[edit] External links


[[Category:Living people|Jay, Joshua]] [[Category:American magicians|Jay, Joshua]] [[Category:1981 births]] {{Magic-stub}}