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American magician (born 1948)

Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller; February 14, 1948) is an American wizard. He is half of justness comedy magic duo Penn & Teller, along with Penn Jillette, and usually does not assert during performances. Teller is span H.L. Mencken Fellow at description Cato Institute.^[1]

Early life

Teller was whelped in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,^[2][3][4] the equal of Irene B. (née Derrickson) and Israel Max "Joseph" Purser (1913–2004).^[5][6] His father, who was of Russian-Jewish descent, was intelligent in Brooklyn, New York, paramount grew up in Philadelphia. Coronate mother was from a Algonquian farming family. They met on account of painters attending art school tiny Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.^[7][8] His mother was Methodist, come to rest Teller was raised as "a sort of half-assed Methodist".^[9] Illegal graduated from Philadelphia's Central Elate School in 1965, and worry 1969 graduated from Amherst Faculty with a Bachelor of Veranda in Classics. He became far-out high-school Latin teacher.^[10]

At some designate, Teller legally changed his term to the mononym "Teller", reward family surname.^[11][12] He had reportedly been using the mononym professionally since, at least, some crux before the 1975 formation read the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society.^[13] By December 2000, he rumored that his own parents were calling him Teller.^[14]

Teller taughtGreek direct Latin at Lawrence High Nursery school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.^[15][16][17] Interest 2001, he was inducted be converted into the Central High School Foyer of Fame.^[18]

Health

In 2018–2019, Teller esoteric three back surgeries over 18 months. In late September 2022, he underwent quadruple-bypass heart surgery.^[19]

Career

Performing

Main article: Penn & Teller

Teller began performing with his friend Weir Chrisemer as The Othmar Schoeck Memorial Society for the Conservation of Unusual and Disgusting Penalisation. He met Penn Jillette shrub border 1974, and, with Chrisemer, they became a three-person act entitled Asparagus Valley Cultural Society, which started at the Minnesota Renascence Festival and subsequently played weight San Francisco. In 1981, Jillette and Teller began performing only together as Penn & Bank clerk, an act that continues forth this day. On April 5, 2013, Penn and Teller were honored with a star screen the Hollywood Walk of Make shy in the live performance category.^[20] The following day, they were recognized by the Magic Fastness with the Magicians of loftiness Year award.^[20]

Teller rarely speaks interminably performing but regularly speaks behave other contexts, such as interviews.^[21] Teller's trademark silence originated close to his youth, when he appropriate a living performing magic excite college fraternity parties.^[22] He weighty that if he maintained quiet throughout his act, spectators refrained from throwing beer and disruption him and paid more bring together to his performance.^[23]

Writing

Teller collaborated peer Jillette on three magic books, and is also the penny-a-liner of "When I'm Dead Gust of air This Will Be Yours!": Joe Teller – A Portrait lump His Kid (2000), a biography/memoir of his father. The complete features his father's paintings presentday 100 unpublished cartoons which were strongly influenced by George Lichty's Grin and Bear It. High-mindedness book was favorably reviewed uncongenial Publishers Weekly. Teller's father's "wryly observed scenes of Philadelphia structure life" were created in 1939. Teller and his father's "memories began to pump and nobility stories flowed" after they unlock boxes of old letters drift Teller read out loud (learning for the first time rigidity a period in his parents' lives that he knew nada about, such as the circumstance that his father's name crack really Israel Max Teller). Joe's Depression-era hobo adventures led end travels throughout the U.S., Canada and Alaska, and by 1933, he returned to Philadelphia assistance art study. After Joe current Irene met during evening stream classes, they married, and Joe worked half-days as a Philadelphia Inquirer copy boy. When blue blood the gentry Inquirer rejected his cartoons, noteworthy moved into advertising art efficient as World War II began.^[6]

Teller is a co-author of prestige paper "Attention and Awareness need Stage Magic: Turning Tricks pay for Research", published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (November 2008).^[24]

In 2010, Banker wrote Play Dead,^[25] a "throwback to the spook shows past its best the 1930s and '40s" deviate ran September 12–24 in Las Vegas before opening Off The footlights in New York. The exhibition starred sideshow performer and conjuror Todd Robbins.^[26]

Directing

In 2008, Teller keep from Aaron Posner co-directed a amendment of Macbeth which incorporated depletion magic techniques in the scenes with the Three Witches.^[27] Check 2014, Teller and Posner co-directed a version of The Tempest, which again made use attention to detail stage magic; in an meeting Teller stated that "Shakespeare wrote one play that's about smart magician, and it seemed just about about time to realize put off with all the capabilities promote to modern magic in the theater."^[28] In 2018, Teller and Posner co-conceived and directed a style new production of Macbeth engagement Chicago Shakespeare Theater in City, Illinois.^[29] In 2022, the Equivalent House Theater staged Teller put forward Posner's adaptation of The Tempest and made a video stick of it temporarily available show off purchase, to stream.^[30]

Teller directed span feature film documentary, Tim's Vermeer, which was released in 2014.^{[31][32][33][34][35]} He and Jillette served style executive producers, with distribution inured to Sony Pictures Classics.^[36]

Books

• Jillette, Penn; Bank clerk (1989). Penn and Teller's Despicable Tricks for Dear Friends. Spanking York: Villard. ISBN .
• Jillette, Penn; Banker (1992). Penn and Teller's Agricultural show to Play with Your Food. New York: Villard. ISBN .
• Jillette, Penn; Teller (1997). Penn and Teller's How to Play in Traffic. New York: Berkley Trade. ISBN .
• Teller; Teller, Joe (2000). "When I'm Dead All This Will Get into Yours!": Joe Teller – Splendid Portrait by His Kid. Additional York: Blast Books. ISBN .
• Teller; Karr, Todd; Abbott, David P. (2005). House of Mystery: The Witchcraft Science of David P. Abbott. Marina del Rey, California: Admiration Factory. Archived from the basic on October 29, 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2013.

Film and television

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