The Academy of Magical Arts recently asked me to send headshots and a recent bio for use in the upcoming Magic Castle awards show on May 19. (I’m receiving a Performing Fellowship.) Here is the updated bio I sent them.

Steve Cohen 2024 BIO

Steve Cohen is a New York City-based magician whose show, Chamber Magic, has been running Off-Broadway for over two decades. Cohen previously held a residency at the legendary Waldorf Astoria hotel, and currently performs in an exclusive salon in the Lotte New York Palace.

Heads of state, stage and screen celebrities, business magnates, and leaders in the arts and sciences have been transfixed by his conjuring. Over half a million people have attended Chamber Magic. On the occasion of Cohen’s 5,000th performance, Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a proclamation naming October 6 “Chamber Magic Day” in the city of New York.

In 2012 Cohen presented a sold-out solo show at Carnegie Hall, and in the same year starred in Lost Magic Decoded, a two-hour special on the History Channel. His magic has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, and Late Night with David Letterman and in numerous publications including The New York Times and Forbes Magazine.

Cohen earned a psychology degree from Cornell University and studied at Waseda University in Tokyo. He has achieved the highest certification, N1 level, in the Japanese Language Proficiency Test issued by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Since 1997, he has worked as the official Japanese language translator for all Tenyo magic trick instructions.

He has been awarded the medal of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star from The Magic Circle in London, the Allan Slaight ‘Sharing Wonder’ award from the Canadian media mogul and philanthropist, and the Masters award from the Milbourne Christopher Foundation.

Cohen is an avid long-distance runner, and has completed the Tokyo Marathon once, and the New York City Marathon five times.

His book, Win the Crowd, in which he explores the power of suggestion and how it can help people in their everyday lives, has been published in seven languages. Confronting Magic, his coffee table book from luxury publisher Assouline, was released to celebrate the show’s twentieth anniversary. Max Malini: King of Magicians, Magician of Kings is his latest book, an in-depth study of one of the greatest characters in the history of magic.