The Alchemist

New York City, NY

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Travels up to 90 miles

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Speakeasy Mentalism

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How did he get it inside HER PURSE?!

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Private College Party: Shock and Awe

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Overview

When you hire Malachy, he curates and designs his performances specifically for each party and corporate event! Chef's Birthday party? Food themed mentalism and magic! Corporate Party for a Security Company's CEO? Cyber Security and Smartphone themed Mentalism. Combining Hacking, Magic and Lock Picking!
Loud environment? Visual magic, Interactive card tricks.
Grand Opening of Spice themed Speakeasy? Fire tricks + Alcohol cocktail themed magic!


Reviews

2 reviews

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Sasha A.

January 25, 2024
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Wonderful!

Malachy was an incredible performer and really engaged with our event attendees, roaming around our gallery opening. Everyone had an amazing time and was blown away. Thank you Malachy!

Hired as: Strolling/Close-up Magician


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Ray B.

January 12, 2023

Amazing Mentalist!

Malachy has amazing abilities!
I met Malachy on a cruise performing Mentalism for our event. Present were many professional lie detectors, Forensic Psychologists, Detectives, and Law Enforcement, and we were all collectively fooled.
As a professor of criminal investigation, I've researched topics in lie detection, memory, and cognition. Malachy astonished us with his memory of 30 randomly chosen words and phrases from the audience!

Hired as: Corporate Magician

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Booking information

Price range: Contact for rates

Languages: Chinese, English, Japanese, Russian

What to expect

Malachy usually shows up 15 minutes early and leaves about 30 minutes after his performance is finished. Malachy loves to stay and talk with his guests and clients and is always polite and courteous. Always super professional and never uses crude language or humor.

With his strolling close-up magic, Malachy will stroll around your event mingling with guests and performing close-up magic for individuals and groups. His presence does not interrupt the flow of the event, this works as a great icebreaker while guests arrive and/or provides entertainment throughout the event. He will curate magic performances to any event. For Cocktail hours and speakeasies, he performs a combination of Mentalism and interactive Magic done in the audience's hands!
For Corporate Events, he designs and creates his own custom magic and mentalism appropriate to each event.

For lounge and loud party environments, he primarily performs impromptu magic (magic using everyday objects like toothpicks, straws, rubber bands, etc.)

For Stage Shows and Parlor, in cocktail lounges or speakeasies or any stage:
Mixing magic with mentalism, your guests will be left astonished as his shows are highly interactive and engaging and often will include 10-20 volunteers.

Often times people will have Malachy 1st perform walk-around close-up magic and mentalism for a few minutes and then a full stage show... the choice is yours!

About

Malachy is not your typical magician or mentalist. He performs and impresses audiences from every walk of life, even under the careful scrutiny of FBI Trainers, Forensic Psychologists, and Retired Cops alike.

Malachy got his start in magic performing for Law Enforcement Professionals, private investigators, Forensic and Parapsychologists, due to his early interest in those fields.

Obsessed with the TV show "Lie To Me" Malachy studied everything under the sun related to reading people's personalities, from behaviour analysis to micro-expressions.
A psychology student, with a Master's Degree in Deception Detection from the Paul Ekman International program in reading micro-expressions.
When he performs he is one of the few - who can say they are the closest to the real Sherlock Holmes.

Past booked events

January 2024

18

Thursday

Cocktail Party

7:00pm - 9:00pm

New York City, NY

Influences and inspiration

Lie to me TV Show: Paul Ekman Group.
Sherlock Holmes Series.
Derren Brown.
Cyril Takayama

Setup requirements

Working Mic Stand or Microphone set up

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