Jayne Illusionist

creating Realities, Illusions, and Impossible Improbabilities.

  • Howard (Producer/Organizer)

    5 star Google review

    I'm so glad Jayne was available to travel and perform at the Renaissance Festival of Nebraska. It's not just that Jayne presents a wonderful production but the fact that Jayne also works well with management. Thank you so much!

  • Alana (Event Organizer)

    5 Star Google Review

    Jayne’s magic show was absolutely incredible! She presented to my high school students and left them completely amazed and engaged. Her tricks were mind-blowing, and she has a natural talent for captivating an audience of all ages. Beyond the magic, Jayne’s energy and enthusiasm were infectious, making the experience not only entertaining but also inspiring. My students couldn’t stop talking about her performance afterward. Highly recommend Jayne for any event—she’s truly magical!"

  • Mari (Audience Member)

    5 Star Google Review

    Jayne’s magic show was exceptional! The storytelling throughout keeps you on the edge of your seat. There’s a lot of variety, drama, and levity. Highly recommend!

  • Chip (Audience Member)

    5 Star Google Review

    We were astounded with this show! Jayne delivers mind blowing magic coupled with a shrewd sense of humor! It is always so entertaining to see her artistry and hear her engaging stories. We will see her at every opportunity in the future!

The Magic

  • Boardroom Magic

    Experience the impossible with Boardroom Magic. This performance blends magic, neuroscience, and creativity to challenge perceptions and share creative practices applicable to daily life. This offering is about three-quarters entertainment and one-quarter education, and it pairs well with the Creativity Workshops.

    Jayne weaves storytelling with mesmerizing illusions—from suspending water mid-air to restoring a mismade bill and performing with an “invisible deck.” Each experience invites audiences to question reality and embrace the unexpected.

    Perfect for corporate events and intimate gatherings, Boardroom Illusions leaves guests entertained, inspired, and reimagining the world around them.

  • Creativity Workshops

    Discover how perception shapes imagination. These hands-on sessions leverage neuroscience and the theory and practice of creativity to unlock fresh thinking.

    Workshop I: The Creative Self For individuals seeking personal inspiration and insight.Through hands-on and interactive exercises, participants experience the practices that enable greater creativity and new ideas. Ideal for creatives, professionals, and anyone craving a fresh approach to thinking.

    Workshop II: Creative Teams For teams ready to innovate and think together. This collaborative session explores brainstorming, morphological analysis, and design methodologies. It strengthens trust, encourages fresh perspectives, and reimagines how your team generates ideas and solutions. Perfect for leadership, departments, and cross-functional groups.

    The Creativity Workshops pair perfectly with Boardroom Magic, offering a deeper, hands-on dive into imagination, perception, and creative practice—individually or together.

  • Strange Tales of Loves and Devotions

    Step into a world where magic is storytelling, and love and loss intertwine with illusion and wonder. Jayne weaves heartfelt tales and mysteries that explore human emotions, and its joys, sorrows, and mysteries.

    From ancestral love to sympathetic trauma and spirit encounters, each vignette blurs the line between reality and the supernatural. Everyday objects become vessels of emotion—a cane turns to silks, destiny’s thread is restored, and a simple balloon becomes a symbol of empathy and pain.

    Inspired by family history and the legacies of legendary magicians, Jayne’s show takes you on a journey of hope, remembrance, and the enduring power of love.

    This is 100% pure entertainment. Prepare to be captivated, moved, and left in awe by Strange Tales of Loves and Devotions—where magic and meaning become one.

  • Laughs, Wonders, and Illusions

    Entertainment combining humor, magic and the impossible just for the fun of it. Perfect for corporate and organizational gatherings or any gathering of colleagues, family, friends. This show creates lasting and positive memories of you and your event.

    With lots of humor and audience involvement, this show is perfect for your business associates and customers.

    Show themes vary to your needs and include just plain fun, positivity, and creativity. Laughs, Wonders and Illusions never includes politics, religion, sexuality or identity motifs.

  • Vaudeville and Variety

    Call it Vaudeville, Burlesque, or Night Club—your venue brings together top talent. Why not add original magic?

    Jayne creates forever memories with magical moments at the crossroads of emotion and perception.
    She makes stories True.

    There are many kinds of magicians. Some play festivals or banquets. Great magic—but one size never fits all. Entertaining adults is different. So is Jayne’s vaudeville magic.

    You need something new. Something thrilling.

    Jayne delivers fast-paced magic built on laughs, wonders, and illusions—stunning productions, vanishes, sharp humor, and audience interaction. Her act can shine in an ensemble or headline a full evening.

    Let her light up your stage.

  • Holiday Affirmations

    The seasons change, and soon Winter arrives, and with it the holiday season. Many people celebrate Christmas, with giving and decorations, and others have different traditions. But nearly everyone pauses to spend time with family, colleagues, and friends, to share hope and well-wishing.

    Holiday Affirmations is a collection of touching vignettes, and beautiful magic and illusion that brings the Joy back to the Season. More than an escape, it is a reflection upon, and thanksgiving for, the blessings we have received and the ones we might bestow.

    This show is offered for events held for November 1st to January 31st.

  • Manifestations of Imagination

    Dare to enter a world where imagination, perception, and reality collide. Jayne, a mesmerizing medium, leads you into the unknown—where eerie apparitions and dark secrets are revealed. With her enigmatic ventriloquist dummy, Eddy, by her side, Jayne’s performance spirals from dazzling illusions to chilling encounters. Flickering candlelight dances with shadows, stormy echoes fill the room, and a presence—unseen but felt—threatens to break through interdimensional veils. As past and present collide, Jayne must confront the haunting remnants of her own childhood jealousies. Can she restore peace, or will imagination summon something far more sinister?

    Prepare yourself for an unforgettable night where fear and fascination blur—if you dare to take a seat. Perfect for intimate gatherings and club shows, this experience will leave you questioning reality.

Jayne’s Boardroom Magic presents an intimate look at creativity through the lens of illusion and magic.

About Jayne

I was born in the mystical Catskill Mountains of New York, into a magical family. My father studied magic with his vaudevillian uncle, and in turn, I apprenticed with Dad. Later, my daughter joined the show; it's a four-generation tradition.

My first stage appearance was at two years old, while Dad sang Me and My Shadow. I was the shadow. From there, I grew into the role—as a cute little kid carrying props on and off stage, then becoming his assistant, and eventually the opening act, specializing in street and close-up magic.

Dad taught me to love audiences, the craft, and the wonder of illusion. He performed classic stage magic in black tuxedo tails and a top hat. His show was amazing and fun, and it ultimately inspired my own “Laughs, Wonders, and Illusions” production.

Eventually, I struck out on my own, though Dad and I continued to perform together often. As peers, we created larger shows and more ambitious illusions. We dreamed of performing full-time. That dream was cut short when he passed unexpectedly at 54. Later, I lived the dream for us both.

I created and performed “Laughs, Wonders, and Illusions” for boardrooms, special events, fundraisers, and audiences ranging from businesses to civic groups.

It was a great show, but artistically, I struggled with two questions. First, much of the material from books, mentors, and magic dealers felt tired and overplayed. Second, I wondered: could magic be more than deception for entertainment? What is magic, and why do it? When COVID paused live performances, I locked myself in my studio and vowed never to say “pick a card” or “that’s going too far” again—after all, how can illusion have logical limits?

Out of that period came Manifestations of Imagination, a theatrical séance performed at private gatherings to great success. That show will return in Fall 2025.

In 2022, I wrote and premiered Strange Tales of Loves and Devotions, a narrative illusion show exploring emotions at the edge of human relationships and reality itself.

In 2024, I began to explore the intersection between perception and interpretation. I discovered that, if only for a few minutes, magic could open a window to endless possibilities—and travel home with the audience, changing the way they see the world.

I continue to explore perceptions and interpretations as they create realities and possible improbabilities. Come along on the adventure!