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Jay Temaat
Jay Temaat is a professional and award winning magician, from Pittsburg, Kansas. He was born in Oakley, Kansas on May 27th, 1995 to Brad and Stacey Temaat. Jay has been performing magic since he was 8 years old. Since then, he has traveled all over the United States, competing and performing. He is currently attending Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott, Kansas.

Mentors
Jay has had many mentors in his career so far. The man that started his love of magic is Skip Foley, Wichita, Kansas. He taught Jay rope tricks one summer at the lake, and after that he was hooked. He loved magic. Jeff McBride is another mentor of Jay's. Jay greatly appreciates all that his mentors do for him. They are a enormous part of where he is today, and where he is going. “After spending so much time with great magicians like Jeff McBride, Larry Hass, Tobias Beckwith, Abbi McBride, Bryce Kuhlman, Eugene Burger, Lance Burton, and Criss Angel, I feel that I am a part of a superior group of performers that will help me in any way to fulfill my career goals.” said Jay Temaat.

Awards
In February 2011, at the World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas, Jay won a $1500 scholarship to attend Jeff McBride's Magic and Mystery School. It was the highest scholarship awarded to a teen magician. In January 2012, he earned the title of "East Coast Teen Champion of Magic 2012" by placing first at the Magic At The Beach Convention's teen competition in Myrtle Beach, North Carolina. At the Winter Carnival of Magic in Pigeon Forge, Tennesee, Jay took home 2nd place in the adult competition, as well as 1st Place People's Choice in March 2012.

Assistant
Rachel Herring has been Jay's Assistant for the past 3 and a half years. They met in school, and then started working together.

Press
Collegio Online PSU (Magician performs for charity) 2012 KOAM FOX (Teen uses magic to pay for college) 2012 Fort Scott Tribune (Do You Believe?) 2012 Joplin Globe (Magic Man) 2012 Morning Sun (Mastering Magic) 2012 Morning Sun (ALS Benefit) 2011 Raider Newspaper (A Magician on the Rise) 2011 Morning Sun (Magic Scholarship) 2011 Morning Sun (Magic Man) 2010 Morning Sun (Mini Magician) 2009