The séance and murder mystery questions I get every time.

Murder By Magic runs beautifully for ten adults in a living room or three hundred in a banquet hall — I have versions built for each. The three séances seat twenty‑five at a time; if your group is bigger I'll run several shorter séances across the evening so everybody gets one. I did four twenty‑minute shows in one night in New York recently.

Murder By Magic is about an hour. The séances can run anywhere from twenty minutes to ninety, depending on what your evening needs. Tell me the window you have and I'll build to it.

Space to perform and an electrical outlet. I bring everything else, including a PA system and microphone for large groups. For the séances I also need a room that can be made dark and a table your guests can sit around.

Yes — it's what these are built for. A lot of performers take a children's show and perform it for grown‑ups, and it doesn't work. Everything here was written for adults from the ground up, which is also why none of it is appropriate for anyone under sixteen.

Murder By Magic: 30–40 minutes, depending on the venue and group size. Spirits of the Titanic and Operation Sanguinum: about an hour. The Haunting of Gurnsey Hollow at full length can take 90 minutes. For in-home evenings and short séances I have versions that set up in about ten.

No. Nobody memorizes lines, nobody is assigned a character in advance, and nothing is arranged with anyone. I've never met a single person in the room when I walk in, and that's the point.

No blood, no gore, nothing that would put anyone off their dessert. In Murder By Magic there's one moment where we establish how the murder was done, and my standard version of it uses razor blades — which most rooms love and a few rooms don't. I'll ask you during booking, and if yours isn't that crowd I'll swap in something gentler. You won't have to bring it up.

Not by me. Guests participate, and some end up at the center of a moment — but nobody gets made the joke, and anybody who'd rather sit still and watch gets to sit still and watch. Twenty‑five years of doing this for a living is mostly twenty‑five years of reading a room.

Yes, and it's some of my favorite work. A house with a history, a family name, an anniversary, a local legend, a book everybody in the room has read — any of those can become the evening. I need six to eight weeks to research and build it properly. More about that here.

No, and I'll tell your guests the same if they ask. I'm a performer. The séance is a piece of theater with real history behind it, and being straight about that makes the evening better. Nobody in the room has to defend a position, they can just let it happen.

I'd rather not, and I'll always say so. Grief isn't something I'll build an evening around, and a room where somebody is truly hoping to reach a loved one is the wrong room for what I do. If that's what you're looking for, I'm not your person and I'd rather tell you now.

I'm based in Niagara Falls, New York, and most private events are in Western New York. I regularly work New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and I've performed in thirty‑nine states. If your date is worth the trip, ask.

Absolutely, and Murder By Magic is usually the right one — it gives you a full room paying attention for an hour, which is exactly the moment you want before an ask. Get in touch and we'll work out how to structure it.

Not during the school day. My school assemblies are an entirely separate business with an entirely separate site, so get in touch and I'll point you at it. The one exception is the night itself: CLOWN was built for after-prom and grad night parties.

It depends on the show, the group size and the distance — a date forty minutes away and one five hours away aren't the same job. Tell me your date, your rough headcount and where you are, and you'll have an exact price the same day.

For the three finished shows, a month is comfortable and I've done a week. For a custom séance, six to eight weeks minimum — the research is the part that takes the time. October books earliest; if you want a Halloween‑season date, ask in summer.

If your guests don't enjoy it, you don't pay. That's been the arrangement for twenty‑five years and nobody has ever taken me up on it.