Lee Asher

In collaboration with several other magicians, he was also involved in the successful project for crowdfunding the Conjuror Community deck of playing cards, which raised $142,543 with 1694 backers.

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His father Mark Horowitz managed an optometric practice, but was a semi-professional magician who learned magic as a boy from Al Flosso and Lou Tannen in New York City in the 1960s.

Lee Asher (born 1976) is a close-up magician noted for originating new card tricks and Hypnotic sleight of hand moves.

He is considered an expert in playing cards, and as a collector is especially known for his work with 52 Plus Joker, the American Playing Card Collectors Club, of which he is the serving President.

He has served as a magic consultant for professional magicians such as Greg Frewin.

Lee Asher was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as the older of two children.

He earned first place as Junior Close-up Champion of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (1991 and 1992), and was a featured lecturer at the inaugural Session Convention, a British convention for close-up magicians, in 2006.

Since then, Lee has appeared multiple times on prime time television, on channels such as the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, and 'The World's Greatest Magic on NBC, delivered lectures on magic around the world, and made guest appearances at magic camps and magic podcasts.

Asher has published extensively, including in magic industry magazines such as Trapdoor, Channel One, The Penumbra, The Magic Circle, Apocalypse, Labyrinth, and Genii Magazine.

He is also part of CURIOSIDADES, a group of magicians formed by BJ Bueno to bring magic to Bueno's home country (Dominican Republic).

Asher is highly regarded for his contributions and expertise as a collector of playing cards.

He attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland until 1994, and in 1999 completed a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality (with an emphasis on Casino Administration) at the University of Nevada/Las Vegas.

During these student years, he would often sneak into casinos like the Golden Nugget, and watch magician Michael Skinner, who would later influence his magic.

Lee Asher attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland until 1994 and then enrolled at the University of Nevada/Las Vegas, from which Lee graduated with honors.

During this time, Lee would frequently break into casinos such as the Golden Nugget.

Here, Lee would watch master magician Michael Skinner who would later influence his magic.

Once the work was done, Lee finished school, he officially graduated from university.

Asher knew that he wanted to be a magician from an early age.

His first magic gigs were wherever he could get a job on evenings and weekends, but his real passion came from inventing magic.

At the young age of 15, he invented a technique titled 'The Asher Twist'.

He had a job doing magic demonstrations at the Magic Mansion, and from 1996 to 1997 worked at Caesars Magical Empire in Caesars Palace to perform card magic under the character title "Cardius Sharkus", working with world-famous magicians including Earl Nelson, Jeff McBride, Chappy Brazil, Joey Burton, Daryl, Michael Ammar, Jonathan Pendragon.

In 2016 he became the youngest ever President of 52 Plus Joker, the prestigious American Playing Card Collectors Club.

He is the current President, and is also actively involved in the publication of their magazine, Card Culture.

He is known for his passion for Jerry's Nugget playing cards, and is considered instrumental in popularizing the original decks, and in 2019 spearheaded a very successful project to recreate them, with a Kickstarter project raising almost half a million dollars with the help of over 4,000 backers.