Steve Dacri is an accomplished sleight-of-hand artist with a career spanning some thirty years as a performer on TV, in clubs and resorts, on cruise ships and at many prestigious venues, including Radio City Music Hall. Dacri's hundreds of TV appearances include The Tonight Show, That's Incredible, Regis Philbin, Merv Griffin, and Candid Camera, among others. Listed in the Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians, Dacri studied with magic legends Tony Slydini, Dai Vernon, and Frank Garcia and has won numerous awards from the International Brotherhood of Magicians, The Society of American Magicians, and other organizations. The Academy of Magical Arts/Magic Castle where he has been a featured performer since 1973, nominated him for a magic Academy Award for his sleight-of-hand performance. At the Magic Circle, the most prestigious magic society in the world, Dacri was presented with the highest honors that a magician could receive: Member of the Inner Magic Circle with Gold Star.

Dacri's extensive and varied background in magic includes creating customized magic presentations for corporate applications. Dacri frequently appears at major conventions and trade shows, either as an "infotainment" presentation or keynote speaker. He has taught a series of lectures for magicians at The Magic Castle, and he often teaches magic courses and workshops at seminars and sales meetings for many Fortune 500 firms. Dacri recently completed his second overseas lecture tour, which again began at the prestigious Magic Circle in London, teaching magic to professional magicians throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Dacri has been a regular performer since 1974 in Las Vegas, at the Hilton, Riviera, Desert Inn, MGM Grand, and Caesar's Palace, as well as Harrah's in Lake Tahoe and Caesar's in Atlantic City. He has appeared with such stars as Rodney Dangerfield, Tom Jones, Tony Orlando, Bob Hope and many others. Dacri is currently in his sixth year of appearances headlining in the Secret Pagoda Showroom in Caesar's Magical Empire in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada. For the second year in a row, Dacri has been named the Creative Director and Web spokesman for the foremost magic web portal, MagicWebChannel.com.

In addition to his performing talents, Dacri is a prolific writer and director for television and film, having directed a number of TV shows, such as Emergency Call, Bounty Hunters and Magic Notebook and created many memorable TV commercial of Diet Coke, Ford, and Mountain Dew, among others. He produced the very successful home video Magic Secrets, the first magic video for the general public, which has sold over 100,000 units to date, and Magic Party Show, which has topped 60,000 units.

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