The DFW metroplex is one of the fastest-growing corporate event markets in the country, with Fortune 500 headquarters in Plano, Irving, and Dallas, plus trade show infrastructure at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, the Gaylord Texan, and the Fort Worth Convention Center. Scott has worked DFW corporate events and trade shows over the years. Based in Kansas City, available throughout North Texas.
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The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has quietly become one of the most important corporate markets in America. Fortune 500 headquarters have been moving to North Texas for a decade. Toyota, AT&T, ExxonMobil, Texas Instruments, Southwest Airlines, Charles Schwab, CBRE, Kimberly-Clark, D.R. Horton, and dozens more call the metroplex home. When those companies hold major internal events, industry conferences, or host visiting-client retreats, the event economy that supports them is substantial, and the corporate magician market is part of that economy.
Scott's DFW work has been concentrated in two buckets. Trade show booth activation for B2B exhibitors at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, the Gaylord Texan, and the Fort Worth Convention Center, where the same dynamics that play out in Chicago and Vegas apply: exhibitors fighting for aisle traffic, buyers walking past identical-looking booths, and a trained magician in the aisle changes the dynamic in a measurable way.
Second, corporate events and stage shows for DFW-headquartered Fortune 500 teams running annual meetings, product launches, and leadership offsites in the metroplex. The venue range is deep: downtown Dallas hotels, Plano corporate campuses, the Gaylord Texan, private clubs in the suburbs, and the Fort Worth cultural district venues. Scott has performed corporate stage shows, close-up strolling magic, and keynote-style engagements across that range.
The DFW advantage for visiting performers like Scott is that travel is efficient. Kansas City to DFW is a short, direct flight, and the metroplex's event logistics are mature and professional. For corporate planners working to a budget, a KC-based magician with 25 years of DFW-adjacent work is often meaningfully cheaper than flying a coastal name-magician to Texas.
Every routine centers on volunteers from the audience. The selection rotates based on the room, the runtime, and what will land hardest with the crowd in front of Scott. None of these are demonstrations of skill. They are designed to fool people, and to give the room a shared moment they keep talking about after the night ends.
Four volunteers come up. One envelope holds a hundred-dollar bill. One by one, three are eliminated game-show style. The last volunteer picks: switch or stay. They lose. Scott wins. Nobody knows how. The volunteer goes home with a consolation prize and a story.
A volunteer signs a card. It vanishes. It reappears, frozen inside a solid block of ice that has been sitting in plain view the entire time.
The whole audience shouts out numbers, added together on someone's phone. The total matches a prediction unrolled across the stage, four feet long. Flipped upside down, the digits spell out the company name, the guest of honor, or whatever the night is celebrating.
A volunteer scrambles a cube themselves. Scott solves it in three seconds behind his back. Then does it again. This time, halfway through, the second cube vanishes.
The event planner sends a photo of the CEO or guest of honor ahead of time. On stage, they sign it, watch it get ripped up, and watch it come back together with the signature intact on the restored piece.
Two volunteers, hands locked into a Victorian-looking contraption. The fun is in their faces, not the gag.
Other routines rotate in: a signed paperback page that tears itself out and reappears in Scott's pocket; a drink-mixing trick where everything pours together and separates back; a jelly-bean prediction strong enough to fool other working magicians. The final running order, along with any custom touches like the photo or the prediction, gets settled on a pre-event call.
A 30–60 minute feature for an annual meeting, sales kickoff, client event, or leadership offsite in the DFW metroplex. More on corporate stage →
Close-up magic in and around your booth at Kay Bailey Hutchison, the Gaylord Texan, Fort Worth Convention Center, or any DFW trade show venue. More on trade shows →
Strolling close-up magic for corporate cocktail hours, hospitality suites, and client-appreciation events across the DFW metroplex. More on close-up →
Every engagement begins with a conversation. You tell Scott about the evening: the audience, the tone, the outcome you're trying to land. What reference material the room will find funny. Whether there's a retiring executive whose thirty-year tenure deserves a callback. A product launch you want written into the closing illusion. A sales number the CFO wants celebrated.
Those details get worked into the show before the night arrives. Most of the job happens before Scott walks on stage.
What the venue needs to provide. Very little. A defined performance area and an outlet within fifty feet of the stage. Scott brings his own props, his own lighting where needed, and a full professional wireless microphone and PA system. A venue mic is optional, never required. His PA is also available for the client's use during the evening if you want it for music, announcements, or another speaker. He arrives early, works the room before the show, and leaves you free to focus on the hundred other things a corporate event has running.
Audience range. Twenty people in a boardroom, a thousand in a hotel ballroom, or any number in between. For very large rooms, confidence monitors or a house camera feed are standard, and most venues that size already run them.
DFW engagements are custom-quoted based on format, duration, and travel. KC-to-DFW travel is efficient (direct 90-minute flight) and typically adds less cost than booking a coastal-based performer. Proposal within 24 hours.
Personal reply within twenty-four hours of inquiry, followed by a proposal. Holds are released in the order received.
Final figures depend on format, audience, travel, and custom content.
Scott also performs for adult private parties and milestone birthdays and children's birthdays. Different formats, same standard.
No. Scott is based in Kansas City and flies to DFW for bookings. The flight is under 90 minutes and direct from KC. Travel, lodging, and per-diem are itemized separately in the proposal and are typically a small fraction of a visiting-performer's total when compared to flying someone in from the coasts.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, the Gaylord Texan, the Fort Worth Convention Center, various DFW downtown hotels, and Plano corporate campuses. For specific venues, ask. Scott has usually either worked it or has contacts on property.
Scott has worked DFW corporate events for a mix of national Fortune 500 clients running Texas events and regional North Texas-headquartered companies. The specific client list is shared on proposal; many corporate engagements are under NDA or prefer to keep their vendor relationships private.
DFW trade show work tends to be mid-sized B2B industry events. Not the giant CES or HIMSS-scale floors, but substantive industry conferences where a trained magician has plenty of room to operate effectively. The DFW exhibitor economy is generally less saturated with competing performers than Vegas, which can mean a well-positioned booth magician stands out more.
Major annual meetings and multi-day corporate events typically book 3-6 months out. Trade show bookings vary by show: larger shows 4-6 months, smaller ones 2-3 months. Last-minute inquiries welcome.
