Derek DelGaudio is a writer, performance artist, and three-time Academy of Magical Arts Award–winning magician. Widely recognized as one of the greatest living sleight of hand artists, DelGaudio has garnered critical acclaim for his innovative theatrical productions and conceptual performances. He cofounded, along with Glenn Kaino, the performance-art collective A.BANDIT, staging work at LAX Art, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Art Basel Miami, and other venues. In 2014, DelGaudio was selected to be the Artist in Residence for Walt Disney Imagineering. He wrote and costarred in the acclaimed show Nothing to Hide.

His most recent theatrical production, In & Of Itself, directed by Frank Oz, is playing in New York at the Daryl Roth Theater through December 30th.