Michael Weber delivers extraordinary, imaginative and innovative perspective to a thinking audience. He can bring a completely different perspective to the seemingly mundane and ordinary.
With style, wit, charm and absolute discretion, Weber utilizes these thoughts to create entertaining and mind-shattering results. Mr. Weber has unfailingly demonstrated this unique ability with hundreds of thousands of people around the world. The themes of communication, information, and innovation resonate throughout every performance.
His presentations reach every member of the audience from a one-on-one demonstration for the President of the United States to Amphitheatre shows for over 7,500 people.
Career
For more than two decades Michael Weber has been creating and performing his own remarkable style of entertainment. He has demonstrated his amazing talents throughout the United States, Western Europe, South America and the Far East. Last autumn he returned from a two month tour of France where he was a featured entertainer at the Cannes film Centre, The Paris Acadamie, in the United States Embassy for the new U.S. Ambassador to France. In this past year Michael performed throughout Thailand and Japan and appeared in Madrid, England, Finland, Lusanne Switzerland, Sweden, Argentina and Germany.
Mr Weber has worked with and for CEOs of several companies including J. Walter Thompson, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, First USA Bank, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Digital, Tandem, The New York Times, Coca-Cola Inc., New York Times Magazine, Space Machine Advisers, Mass Mutual, Metra Health, Perkin Elmer, P.E. Applied Bio Systems, Travelers, Astra, Pfizer Pharmaceutical, First Boston Bank, After Six, General Electric, AT&T, HBO, Kraft Foods, Cinesite, NBC, Cinemax,Conde' Nast Publications, Texaco, Dunn and Bradstreet, Johnson & Johnson, Silver Screen Partners, The PGA, Ortho Pharmaceuticals, Interplay Software Development, The Walt Disney Company, Keebler, United Biscuit Company UK, Christian Dior, The Four Seasons Hotel's and the Philip Morris Companies.
He has hosted events for Pepsi Co., Otis Elevator, Nabisco, United Biscuit Company, Jaguar Motors, Shearson American Express, Tandem, General Electric Information Systems and Paramount Pictures.
He was the co-founder of the company, Deceptive Practices which provides the entertainment industry with "Arcane Knowledge on a Need-To-Know Basis." Together with his partner and co-founder Ricky Jay, Michael designs, creates, and performs startling effects for film, theatre and television productions. In addition to designing and constructing the Jacob's Ladder illusion for the Tony Award-winning play Angels in America, he recently completed work on films creating the impossible for stars Denis Quaid, Debra Winger, Michele Peiffer and Jack Nicholson. He was Julia Robert's personal instructor for I Love Trouble and he designed actor Gary Sinese's illusionary wheelchair for the Academy Award Winning film Forest Gump. His work can be seen in the Michael Crichton movie Congo from Paramount Pictures, and with Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's Casino.
Michael also happens to be a licensed attorney in the State of California with an educational background that includes B.S, B.A., M.B.A. and J. D. degrees. With his diverse experiences and a wide-ranging field of interest he is comfortable and conversant with audiences and individuals on almost any level.
Media Appearances
He appears regularly on national and international television programmes like Beyond the Mechanical Universe and that PBS series, The Nature of Things. He also featured on the national television series, Sightings.