Kansas City's premier corporate magician for twenty-five years. Booked by local Fortune 500 headquarters (Hallmark, H&R Block, Cerner/Oracle, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Garmin, Hill's Pet Nutrition) and by visiting corporations who need a local KC-based magician for events they're hosting in the city. Trade shows, hospitality suites, stage shows, and keynote engagements.
Trusted by leading organizations
Kansas City is Scott's home market and has been for twenty-five years. The bookings come from two directions. First, the local Fortune 500 and regional headquarters: Hallmark on the Plaza, H&R Block in Downtown, Cerner/Oracle on the campus in North KC, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Garmin in Olathe, Hill's Pet Nutrition in Topeka, plus the Kansas City Chiefs organization, the Kansas City Royals, and the Kauffman Foundation. These are companies that have booked Scott repeatedly over two decades, and much of the work is the kind that doesn't make a public portfolio: annual meetings for the leadership team, client-appreciation events at Arrowhead, company holiday parties, and internal awards evenings.
Second, the visiting corporations. Kansas City has become a serious convention and corporate-event city. Loews Kansas City downtown, the Westin Crown Center, the InterContinental on the Plaza, the Kansas City Convention Center, Union Station, and dozens of corporate-event venues host Fortune 500 teams year-round for annual meetings, product launches, client retreats, and regional leadership offsites. Visiting teams often want a local KC-based magician for the local touch: someone who knows the city, whose reputation can be verified locally, and who doesn't come with the travel cost of flying a name-magician in from the coasts. Scott is that magician.
The work spans every format: stage shows at the Kauffman Center, close-up and strolling magic at Power & Light venues and the downtown hotels, trade show booth work at the convention center when KC hosts industry conferences, hospitality suite entertainment during visiting-team weeks, school assemblies across the metro, and nonprofit galas at venues from the Kansas City Public Library to the Nelson-Atkins.
The local reputation is the thing that's hardest to replicate. 150+ verified five-star Google reviews from KC clients. 25 years performing for the same companies year after year. Repeat bookings from the local Fortune 500 HQs. And the kind of grocery-store recognition in the KC metro that only happens when a performer has been the city's magician of record for that long.
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 Kansas City. Works at venues from the Kauffman Center to Loews to Arrowhead to private office ballrooms. More on stage shows →
Strolling close-up magic for KC corporate cocktail hours, hospitality suites, and client events. Particularly in demand during conference weeks when visiting corporations are hosting side events. More on close-up →
Booth floor work for any trade show visiting Kansas City: convention center, hotel event space, or industry-specific venue. The local KC-based performer option for visiting exhibitors. More on trade shows →
Keynote speaking for KC-hosted industry conferences, leadership retreats, and association meetings. Three signature themes available: creativity, innovation, connection. More on keynotes →
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.
Local Kansas City engagements don't carry travel costs, which often makes the all-in cost meaningfully lower than hiring an out-of-market performer at comparable quality. Every engagement is custom-quoted based on format, duration, and any production requirements. 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.
Kansas City is the largest corporate market between Chicago and Dallas. Its convention venues, including the Overland Park Convention Center, Union Station, the Westin Crown Center, and the Intercontinental Plaza, host both local Fortune 500 companies and national exhibitors who need a local entertainer.
When a company headquartered elsewhere lands a regional show or hospitality event in Kansas City, Scott is usually the local hire. Twenty-five years in this market means knowing the venues, the A/V quirks, and the after-party spots, which saves the visiting meeting planner real time.
A Kansas City trade show, October 2025.
A live booth reaction at a Kansas City trade show, October 2025.
Kansas City trade show, October 2025. Scott performs a sleight-of-hand effect at a Chicago-area exhibitor's booth. The attendee's reaction is the pitch: this is what your booth visitors will look like, and this is the moment that turns a passerby into a conversation.
Booth magic functions as a stop-and-watch mechanic. It buys your sales rep ninety seconds of face time with a buyer who would have walked past.
Scott has been based in Kansas City for 25 years. He lives in the metro, knows the venues firsthand, and has a local reputation that can be verified on any KC corporate event planner's grapevine. Grocery-store recognition in KC is a reasonable test of local-ness, and Scott passes it.
A partial list: the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Union Station, Loews Kansas City, the Westin Crown Center, InterContinental Kansas City, Power & Light District, Arrowhead Stadium, the Kansas City Public Library (Central), the Nelson-Atkins Museum, the Overland Park Convention Center, the Johnson County Community College Carlsen Center, the Chicken N Pickle locations, the Kansas City Convention Center, and dozens of private corporate venues and country clubs across the metro.
A partial list of local and regional KC-area bookings: Hallmark, H&R Block, Cerner/Oracle, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Garmin, Hill's Pet Nutrition (Topeka), Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Royals, Kauffman Foundation, AMC Theaters, Applebee's, Lockton, American Century Investments, Waddell & Reed, DST Systems, Kiewit, Husch Blackwell, BlueCross BlueShield of Kansas City, Nestlé Purina, and many more.
Yes, and this is one of Scott's most common booking patterns. Visiting corporations (Fortune 500 teams holding annual meetings, product launches, or client retreats in KC) book Scott specifically because they want a local magician rather than flying a name-magician in from the coasts. The result is usually better because Scott knows the venues, the city, and the local vendor ecosystem.
Both. The corporate work is the core, but Scott also does private parties, birthdays, schools, fundraisers, and community events throughout the KC metro. See the homepage for the full range.
Local corporate bookings typically work 4-8 weeks out. Large annual meetings and multi-day events often book 3-6 months out. Holiday parties book earliest; October-December fills by summer. Last-minute inquiries are always worth a call. Cancellations happen.
