INTERNATIONAL DEAF MAGICIAN 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 
 

• Simon J. Carmel started to learn magic at age of three.  

• When he was 13, he won the first place at the city-wide magic tournament in Baltimore, Maryland, sponsored by the world’s famous magician Harry Blackstone, Sr.

• He has given magic shows to both deaf and hearing audiences around the United States, and in Canada and Europe including Russia and the Ukraine for many years.

• He was the Grand Prix winner at the 7^th World Deaf Magicians Festival in London, England in 1998.

• He has been giving professional magic lectures to both deaf and hearing magic club members and other magicians in some states, and Moscow, Russia since 1990.  Also, he conducts a new workshop for grandparents who wish to learn simple magic lessons and teach them to their grandchildren, in turn.

• He is a member of the Society of American Magicians, the International Brotherhood of Magicians, the U.S. Deaf Magicians Society, and the Society of World Deaf Magicians.

• He is currently a secretary-general of the Society of World Deaf Magicians.

• He is now a retired associate professor of cultural anthropology at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.  

• He recently published his new book, Silent Magic: Biographies of [59] Deaf Magicians in the United States from the 19^th to 21^st Centuries.    He also wrote several magic articles published in the past issues of the Linking Ring Magazine of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.