Derek DelGaudio

Bio

It’s easy to refer to Derek DelGaudio as an illusionist or a magician, but his work is more inscrutable than that. Combining performance art, monologue, and (yes) magic, DelGaudio’s current show, In & Of Itself is his most challenging and creatively ambitious to date. It might also be the most perplexing. “This is the show where I’m going to let the world start to decide exactly what it is that I am,” he says. “If people see the show and want to refer to me as a magician after this, I have to be OK with that.”