richard glenn - magician / comedian i am asked often to define who or what i am. that is a difficult question to answer unless i say 65% water. am i a magician? yes and no. comedian? sometimes yes but mostly no. am i a performer? without a doubt! i have been known to stand on stage, street and sometimes in a bar and entertain. that is the passion of my life! who am i? i am just this guy, you know. hopefully this site can help answer this question, for you and for me!richard glenn - magician / comedian i am asked often to define who or what i am. that is a difficult question to answer unless i say 65% water. am i a magician? yes and no. comedian? sometimes yes but mostly no. am i a performer? without a doubt! i have been known to stand on stage, street and sometimes in a bar and entertain. that is the passion of my life! who am i? i am just this guy, you know. hopefully this site can help answer this question, for you and for me!richard glenn - magician / comedian i am asked often to define who or what i am. that is a difficult question to answer unless i say 65% water. am i a magician? yes and no. comedian? sometimes yes but mostly no. am i a performer? without a doubt! i have been known to stand on stage, street and sometimes in a bar and entertain. that is the passion of my life! who am i? i am just this guy, you know. hopefully this site can help answer this question, for you and for me!richard glenn - magician / comedian i am asked often to define who or what i am. that is a difficult question to answer unless i say 65% water. am i a magician? yes and no. comedian? sometimes yes but mostly a

Over the last 2 weeks I have discovered that looking at ones self is quite a scary thing.  Daunting even.  You need to be able look at yourself for whom you are, whom you really are and while doing that not lie to yourself.  Try it some day; it is not as easy as it sounds.  Lying to yourself is the easiest thing in the world to do.

But back to the point - who am I? Well to be honest I have to admit finally that I have quite a split personality.  I do not believe it requires medications (Yet) but I see there are for sure two distinct sides to my personality. 

You have the conformist side, trying to fit in with the world around me.  Saying what he should, when he should and keeping an even keel with the people he knows.  He tries to be agreeable to everyone and keep the feathers from flying (is that a saying?).  He has been the ruling force in my daily life and my normal workdays.  He keeps me employed at my day job and has kept me out of jail. 

Then we flip the coin as they say and see the other side.  Here you find the crazy, fuck the world, does what he wants, says what he thinks and has a “who cares” attitude towards everything side of my personality.   He jokes around, makes everyone laugh (at him or with him – who cares). You will see him in the Bars of NYC, the Clubs in Vegas and anywhere else a glass of alcohol can be had.  To clarify I do not need to be drunk to find this side, it is just the environments where he thrives!  I know him well but I have done my best to keep control of him most of my life. 

To be honest though it is side that I wish I could have turned on 24/7

So what does this have to do with the new show…well everything!  As I said, if any show is going to be as successful as I hope it needs to come from deep inside.  The show has to be about who I really am and who I want to be.  So I have come to the conclusion that it is time to flip the switch and go for it.  Let the Devil out of the box and set him free as it were.  We will see now exactly what that mind will come up with for the show! 

Tune in next time and we will talk about the stage persona, this is going to be fun!

Ok I lied.  Yes you need a blank stage but also a blank page is very helpful as well.  Magicians and a blank page though are dangerous together. It is time consuming and often costly to create a new show, especially from scratch.  Let me explain.  There are many ways to script a show in this industry:

1) Start with effects you have and know then put them together to form a show.  This is nice because you know your material but it really limits where the show can go creatively

2) Put together your perfect show in your head, beginning to end with all the effects you have seen others do and that you like.  You then learn / purchase what you need to do the show.  This is an idea that many magicians that are just starting out try to do.  This unfortunately is expensive and a disaster waiting to happen.  Just because you like it does not mean you have the ability (mental or personality wise) to pull it off.  Also it turns out just to be a mix of other peoples show.

3) (What I am attempting to do) Soul search… That is it.  You need to find out who you are first.  What type of effects do you perform best, what personality you have that gets the best audience reaction.  Once you have that the rest is, sorry to say, uphill.  You know have a personality now you need to build off of that.  Take some of you best received effects, Learn some that can be adapted to your way of performing and then make a few up that no one has ever seen.  (yea that is hard)

So here I am pen in hand soul searching…it is a hard thing trying to see who I really am and how I perform best.  Brutal honesty is key to success, so here I go.

for all of you that have seen me perform you know i an a big fan of harry houdini.  well my new t-shirt design is almost done and it is a tribute to harry houdini in a way.  the main name is an ambigram of my name (richard glenn) when you look at it one way and harry houdini when you look at it the other way.  The design is not 100% yet but when it is we will have them on sale here.  what do you think?

Just got the news that my brother Daniel and his girlfriend are now expecting a baby.  I am going to be an Uncle.  Wow if he is not scared I totally am!

It is good to hear actually because I am the older of the siblings and it gets my mom off me and my wife’s back haha! (to be honest it will probably turn up the heat on us) Congrats Bro, love you! Look out June 16th, another one of us is coming!