Derek DelGaudio

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Derek DelGaudio
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DelGaudio in 2020
Born1984/1985(age 37–38) [1]
OccupationPerformance artist, writer, actor, magician
Years active2010–present

Derek DelGaudio is an American interdisciplinary artist, primarily known as a writer, performer and magician.

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He created the theater show In & Of Itself, directed by Frank Oz, and co-founded, along with artist Glenn Kaino, the performance-art collective A.BANDIT, which has staged interventions at Art L.A. Contemporary in Santa Monica, The Ball of Artists, Art Basel Miami, LA><ART, and The Kitchen in New York. [2] DelGaudio and Kaino also created The Mistake Room, [3] a platform for situation-specific projects, as well as The [Space] Between, a "conceptual magic shop". [4] They have also co-authored a book under the A.BANDIT name, A Secret Has Two Faces, containing interviews and stories from their careers in performance art and magic, as well as contributions from Marina Abramović, Ricky Jay, David Blaine and John Baldessari. [5]

In 2014, DelGaudio was selected Artist in Residence for Walt Disney Imagineering. He has also consulted for television and cinema projects including The Carbonaro Effect and The Prestige . He wrote and co-starred (with Hélder Guimarães) in the show Nothing to Hide , which was directed by Neil Patrick Harris and opened off-Broadway at the Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City on October 23, 2013. [6]

Frank Oz directed a film version of In & Of Itself which was released on Hulu on January 22, 2021. DelGaudio's nonfiction book AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies was released in March 2021. [7] [8]

In August 2021, Neal Brennan's one-man show, Unacceptable, debuted at New York City's Cherry Lane Theater, with DelGaudio as director. [9]

In 2022, DelGaudio made his feature film acting debut in Steven Soderbergh's thriller Kimi .

Reception

In the 2017 New York Times Magazine profile of DelGaudio, journalist Jonah Weiner wrote:

DelGaudio devises performances that combine sleight-of-hand with more theoretical preoccupations drawn from performance art, conceptual art and what's known as relational aesthetics: a tributary of the first two in which spectators become indispensable, unpredictable participants in creating an artwork's meaning. [1]

Awards and honors

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