Victor Ian Élan
Victor IanSmith is excited to debut in his first theatre stage production, though this is not his first time performing acts of wizardry and legerdemain professionally. Victor has been a practicing professional magician and mentalist for many years having amazed and amused thousands of kids from age 2 to 102.
Victor has played the lead in Doc Smith’s Medicine and Magic Show (where “laughter is the best medicine”), for hundreds of senior care and skilled nursing facilities; delighted children both in preschool settings and for CHOC Children’s Hospital of Orange County with his whimsical Mister Ian Magic Show; amazed audiences as “THE GREATEST 19TH CENTURY CONJUROR AND CLAIRVOYANT ALIVE TODAY” in Soirées Fantastique – An Evening of Victorian Enchantment and is now working on a new turn-of-the-19th-century mental magic and mind-reading show Steampunk Mystic – Journey to the Center of the Mind. As one can tell, Victor has a unique passion for the Victorian era.
Victor’s love of magic continues into the 21st century with The Academy of Wonder™ an offering of specially designed magic classes that incorporate “life lessons” into its funtastic 8-week youth enrichment program. As the exclusive Los Angeles area licensed presenter of the Discover Magic™ curriculum, a one-of-a-kind, internationally recognized program, specifically tailored for 7 to 12-year-old students, Victor is passionately dedicated to maximizing potential magic abilities that exist in us all to develop people and life skills in children, through performance-based learning experiences.
