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underconstruction Lisa Menna, is an AmericanCanadian corporate and parlour magician. She has won several major awards, including Best Corporate Magician and Best Performer at Corporate Events as well as performing at many conventions and trade shows worldwide. Her success is mainly due to her excellent sleight of hand skills and comedic routine, creating a sense of immersion in the performance. Lisa graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in Psychology.

earlyon
Lisa started practicing magic at a very young age. "When I was eight years old in Humble, Texas, my brother went through a rodeo phase. One afternoon, he decided to try calf roping, only we did not have a calf. Somehow I ended up wrapped up in duct tape and left in the closet. The next morning I looked up Houdini in the school library." She studied magic at the library, learning from greats such as Bill Severn and eventually started performing as a magic clown, doing a few thousand birthday parties while honing her both her people skills and her sleight of hand. To pay her way through college, she performed

Awards
First place awards include:
 * Tannen's International Magicians Competition in New York City


 * Las Vegas World Seminar (Presented by Lance Burton)
 * International Battle of Magicians (twice, 1996 and 1998)
 * Columbus Magi Fest


 * Kleinman Incentive Award, Most Promising Youth (SAM National Convention)
 * Best Published Trick, Award for Creativity (Linking Ring magazine)
 * Youngest magician to write One-Man-Parade (twenty page exposition of original effects) in Linking Ring magazine

Books

 * Overlap
 * Joshua Jay's Magic Atlas
 * A Teens Routine
 * Session

His award-winning book Joshua Jay's Magic Atlas has been translated into German, Japanese, and French.

Videos

 * Close Up, Up Close: Volumes 1 - 3

Columns

 * Talk About Tricks (Magic magazine)
 * Talk About Tricks  - 3 DVD Set - Joshua Jay