The VIP Guest List for The Haunted Magic Show Starring Dr. Richard Nongard at the Ahearn Showroom

I am happy to offer you complimentary tickets to the Haunted Magic Show and I am looking forward to entertaining you. Doors open at 6:30pm each night; costumes are encouraged but not required, and I can promise – a good time will be had by all who attend!  If you or your guests prefer to purchase a ticket (support the arts!) click this link.

I will send an email confirmation within 24-48 hours. Your name will be on the guest list. The event will be at the Ahearn in the main showroom on the second floor. Doors open at 6:30pm. The bar will be open. Costumes are encouraged!

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 the 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!