What If Your Next Event Could Bend Reality Itself? And Transform YOU into a Legendary Host...
I don't perform tricks. I construct experiences where the boundary between coincidence and conspiracy dissolves and where your guests don't just witness impossibility, they participate in it!
If you're planning an intimate gathering, corporate event, or private party in Las Vegas, I create moments that don't just entertain. They linger. At times, they haunt. Humor and levity reign, and everyone leaves with a star and a smile on their face. My show will become the story your guests tell for decades.
If your goal is to impress your guests with unique entertainment, good times, and a show to remember, then reaching out to me now is your chance to book the best magician in Las Vegas!
Between the Possible and the Impossible: Where My Work Lives
I weave close-up magic and mentalism through stories crafted with psychological truths and philosophical mysteries. My background as a psychotherapist and clinical hypnotist gives me access to something most performers never touch: the invisible architecture of human consciousness itself.
Small groups, private parties, corporate events, stages, and audiences of all sizes. I am a strolling magician in Las Vegas, and a stage show magician who can adapt to any size group!
How long is the show? I can do strolling magic for the duration of your event, with shows ranging from 30-75 minutes. I can adapt my performances around your needs, availability, and time, and work in conjunction with other events, performers, and themes.
One important thing to note: I am the entertainer to hire if you wish to have a good time and do not wish to court controversy. My four promises:
I will show up on time and ready to leave a positive impression on you, the sponsors, and the participants.
You will not have to worry about offending your guests: I do not do political, sexual, racist, or "blue" shows. I stay in the wide-open lane of respecting all people and their differences while exploring mysteries we can all share!
No boring magic! All the experiences I create are designed to be engaging and interesting, elevating the guests without overshadowing the purpose of your party/event.
What you're inviting into your event:
Close-up magic and mentalism designed for small groups and intimate settings where everyone becomes a co-conspirator!
Performances that explore the shadow side of wonder—things can get deliciously dark while levity reigns supreme.
Stories woven from philosophy enigmas, psychological precision, and the recognition that the observer and observed are inseparable.
Interactive experiences where your guests don't watch a show—they become unreliable narrators of their own impossible memories.
An atmosphere where questions matter more than answers, and mystery outlives explanation, and everyone feels astonished by what they felt at your event!
This isn't entertainment that ends when I leave. It's entertainment that begins when I do.
For Adults Who Want Their Reality Questioned
Let me be direct: I am not a children's entertainer. My work explores psychological confusion, philosophical ambiguity, and the unsettling spaces where free will meets manipulation. This is sophisticated entertainment for grown-ups who appreciate complexity, nuance, and experiences that challenge rather than comfort. My tricks are fun, but predicated on what we actually believe we know, both about ourselves, and the world around us.
If you're looking for balloon animals and card tricks for kids' birthday parties, I'm not your performer. But if you want your adult guests to leave your event astonished, happy, and yet questioning the nature of choice, consciousness, and coincidence—then we should talk.
Experiences That Rewrite What Your Guests Believe Is Possible
"The Mutual Dream"
What if two minds could share the same dream before either person spoke it? Two private decisions made in the space between strangers. Then I send them my card—not through words, but through what Carl Jung called the collective unconscious. They receive the color. The suit. The value. They find my card in the deck without ever being told. And when we reveal what we each chose... they discover we were dreaming the same dream all along. "You didn't guess my card. You remembered it—the way you remember a dream that was never entirely your own to begin with."
"Engineering Consent"
A demonstration of the invisible switches that control human choice, based on Edward Bernays—the man who made women smoke, nations fight wars, and desire itself become a product. I'll show your guests how thoughts are planted, decisions are guided, and free will might be the universe's most convincing illusion. They'll make choices throughout. Completely free choices. And discover they were engineered from the beginning. When it's over, they'll leave wondering: who else is reaching for my switches?
"The Carnival of Broken Promises"
A carnival con man once told me: "You can either hold the cards or hold the receipt." Your guests will shuffle, choose, deal, count—make every decision themselves while I never touch the deck. And yet, a prediction made before any of it began will prove that mathematics is just destiny wearing a lab coat. This isn't about skill or luck. It's about the terrifying possibility that the universe has been guiding them toward one inevitable moment since before they sat down.
"The Weight of a Thought"
Your guest thinks of a card. Never touches it. Never speaks it. Never gives a single clue. And yet, through nothing but the subtle shifts in breath, posture, and presence that thoughts create in the body, I'll find it. Because here's the secret: a thought has weight. It has texture. It leaves a shape in the air. Alan Watts once said the part of you watching your thoughts isn't the same part creating them. Tonight, your guests will feel that separation—and realize their mind just spoke without making a sound.
"The Twins"
This is what the Greeks called Kairos: the opportune moment when time itself conspires. Your guests won't just watch this happen. They'll wonder what else in their lives they've been choosing correctly without knowing it.
Where Wonder Meets the Waking World
I'm based in Las Vegas and available for:
Whether you're hosting a few people in your living room or planning a larger event at a Las Vegas venue, I tailor each performance to the specific alchemy of your audience. Every room has its own frequency. I find it.
Please note: My performances are exclusively for adult audiences. I do not perform at children's parties, teen events, or family gatherings with those under sixteen present. This work requires maturity, philosophical curiosity, and a willingness to sit with uncomfortable questions, well, creating a night of enchanting personal growth.
Dr. Richard Nongard, Psy.D
The Psychotherapist Who Learned Magic Before Psychology
My path began in 1981 as the first student of Eugene Burger—the renowned magical philosopher who taught that magic isn't about fooling people, but about creating experiences that touch something deeper than deception can reach.
That apprenticeship taught me that a playing card isn't cardboard and ink—it's a vessel for meaning we pour together.
As a practicing psychotherapist and clinical hypnotist with doctorates in psychology and leadership (cross-cultural engagement), I understand the mechanics of attention, suggestion, and the strange truth that we're all unreliable witnesses to our own experience. I know how to read the room's collective unconscious, build rapport that feels like recognition rather than introduction, and craft moments where wonder and dread dance together.
My professional writing and published books span the field of psychotherapy, but my soul's work has taken me to stages throughout Las Vegas—the Riviera Hotel and Casino, The Orleans Showroom, the Aladdin—venues where legends performed, and audiences came expecting the impossible. Each performance I create draws on four decades of studying both the psychological and the impossible, where science and mystery share the same address.
Max Maven once said that mentalism is "the art of thinking creatively with another person's mind." Eugene Burger taught that magic creates "a moment of astonishment in the theater of the mind." Alan Watts reminded us that "the menu is not the meal."
I bring all three perspectives. Your guests won't get the menu. They'll get the feast!
Your Guests Deserve an Experience That Questions the Questions!
I work with a limited number of private events each month. Not because of artificial scarcity, but because each performance requires complete immersion in your specific gathering—its tone, its purpose, the particular constellation of personalities you're bringing together.
This isn't magic that happens to your guests. It's magic that happens through them. They become the medium. The message. The memory itself.
If you're ready to give them something that outlives the evening—something that becomes the story they tell strangers who won't quite believe them—let's discuss your event.
Dr. Richard Nongard, Psy.D. - Las Vegas Magician & Mentalist
Close-Up Magic & Mentalism for Private Events, Parties & Gatherings
Where Psychology Meets the Impossible
Adult Audiences Only
Hypnosis Nevada, LLC
6130 W. Flamingo Rd. #123, Las Vegas, NV 89103
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