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Drew Heyen has been performing magic since 1985. He had a
very slow beginning, performing very simple tricks for friends
and family (a traditional start for magicians). His real
interest developed when he began playing Gin Rummy with
assorted friends on a nightly basis. Drew found that he was
very comfortable with a deck of playing cards. Starting with
flourishes, he quickly moved on to more complicated effects,
giving an audience the impression that he could cause a deck
of playing cards to respond to his every whim.
Since 1991 Drew Heyen has been a part of the Texas
Renaissance Festival Entertainment company, portraying a wide
variety of characters ranging from a sailor with a bad sense
of direction to a high ranking German commander. This sort of
experience grants Drew Heyen the ability to entertain an
audience, even without the aid of magic. Rather than substitute
content with tricks, Drew Heyen gives his audience a sense of
interaction and participation, as well as a genuinely good
time. It is his belief that magic should add to a performance,
not carry it. In 2000 Drew began performing magic at the Texas
Renaissance Festival, in the Feast Hall show. As part of his
contract that year he also performed walkaround magic in the
streets of the festival.
In 1999 Drew Heyen became the headlining magician of
Excalibur Fantasy Festival in Smithville, Texas. Excalibur is
where he pioneered his stage craft, in the form of the "Objects
of Wonder" show, and brought it to its current level. The
trust and good nature of the management of Excalibur gave him
the opportunity to gain guidance from the only source an
entertainer can truly receive it, his audience.
Drew Heyen has been performing on behalf of many Houston
event planners, such as Judy Frow's Show Business and Best
Entertainers, since 1995, with great success. It is in
this venue that he has found his greatest success,
entertaining at both private and corporate events alike. No
two jobs are exactly the same, calling upon Drew Heyen to
create a new performance each time, giving him many
experiences in versatility, and the ability to call on that
experience to create each new persona.
With such a rich background in the field, there is little
that Drew Heyen is unable to accomplish for each and every
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