David Kaye
David Kaye
“There is no substitute for seeing Silly Billy in performance … It is difficult to imagine a more thorough or effective way to provide real-world instruction on how to entertain children than this.” – Genii Magazine David Kaye is a full time professional magician. He has been an amateur magician since he was six years old, and a professional magician since 1986. He performs all styles of magic, but the vast majority of his time is spent performing magic shows for children.
David has gained local and national fame performing magic as the clown character Silly Billy.
In New York, where he performs more than 300 shows each year, he has been recognized as New York’s top children’s entertainer by five New York publications. His television credits include appearances on Late Show with David Letterman, as well as multiple appearances on Comedy Central. His client list reads like a Who’s Who. Clients include Bruce Springsteen, Susan Sarandon, Madonna, Eddie Murphy, and the Sultan of Brunei.
Since June 2000, David has been writing a monthly column for MAGIC magazine about performing magic for children. The column is called Turn It Around. Silly Billy was the first, and still only, children’s magician to appear on the cover of MAGIC Magazine. He has also appeared on the covers of Genii, M.U.M. and Funny Paper.
At IMX, David will share with you “The Six Most Important Principles for Performing Magic for Children” – six principles to incorporate into your children’s shows to create the maximum entertainment. David’s main performing philosophy is “Increase Interactions Per Minute.” First he teaches what that means, and then he teaches the six methods to do that. He teaches each principle then shows a short video clip of himself performing before 300 children to illustrate the principle. The six principles are Adding Comedy, Adding Interaction, Empowering the Children, Adding Storytelling Elements, Entertain the Adults, and Teach Them First, Then They Know. The information in this lecture comes from the bulk of his acclaimed book, Seriously Silly.
