Career
Magic
Jamy Ian Swiss is world-renowned as a sleight of hand performer specializing in close-up card magic. He has performed magic throughout the United States for presenters ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the Smithsonian Institution. He has been featured in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post and New York Press.
He has also appeared in television programs including 48 Hours, the Public Broadcasting Service series NOVA, and the Public Broadcasting Service documentary The Art of Magic and The Today Show.
He also worked as a comedy writer and chief magic consultant for Penn & Teller on their television program, Sin City Spectacular. In 2000, Swiss presented a one-man show The Honest Liar as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.
His show of intimate sleight-of-hand magic, Magic: Close-up in Concert, ran for six months at the Rainbow Room in New York City, and has also been presented at the Players Club. Swiss is currently a co-producer and performer for Monday Night Magic, New York City"s longest running Office-Broadway magic show.
Writing and lecturing
Jamy Ian Swiss is the author of the essay collection Shattering Illusions.
He also contributed to, or consulted on, the following books:
Magic for Dummies
Penn & Teller’s How to Play with Your Food
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
He writes columns for Skeptic magazine and the quarterly magic journal Antimony. He has written for Genii, the Conjurors’ Magazine since 1994. He has lectured to magicians in 13 countries.
He also created and produces Card Clinic, a seminar on sleight of hand with playing cards.
Movies and Documentaries
Jamy Ian Swiss is the host in the documentary Merchants of Doubt, drawing a parallel between his "honest" lying and the deceitful lying in politics and business.