Jeff Sheridan

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Jeff Sheridan (b. 1948, real name Jeff Mazzio) is an American magician who specializes in street magic. Sheridan began working in New York City around 1967. He authored the 1977 book, Street Magic.

Sheridan is best known for his incredible card manipulations, which are world class. He is known for his avante-garde style of performance which included training in being a mime. He is a pioneer at making a living at magic purely by working the street, and was well known as the Central Park magician performing at the Walter Scott statue in NYC in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. He is also a magic inventor, creating for the major U.S. toy company Milton Bradly's Magic Works line of magic, as well for the Tenyo company of Japan. Sheridan is well known in the magic community, now lectures on the circuit as well selling his DVDs. He was a teacher of Las Vegas magician Jeff McBride and Seth Kotkin who used the ideas and tricks taught by Sheridan to later become known as David Copperfield.

Since the 1990s, he has lived mostly in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, performing frequently at the Tigerpalast (www.tigerpalast.de), Germany's leading varieté theater. In 2005 he married Candice Cohen, his friend for over 30 years; she also serves as his manager. In recent years, he has increasingly devoted his energies to combining magic and surrealist art, incorporating his own artwork into his performances as a magician. In 2007 and 2008, there have been exhibitions of his artwork in NYC and Frankfurt.