Jeff Sheridan (b. 1948, real name Jeff Mazzio) is an American magician who specializes in street magic. Sheridan began working in New York City around 1967. He authored the 1977 book, Street Magic. Sheridan is best known for his incredible card manipulations, which are world class, and is considered an expert on this subject. He is known for his avante-garde style of performance which included training in being a mime. He is a pioneer at making a living at magic purely by working the street, and was well known as the Central Park magician performing at the Walter Scott statue in NYC in the late sixties. He is also a magic inventor, creating for the major U.S. toy company Milton Bradly's Magic Works line of magic, as well for the Tenyo company of Japan. Sheridan is well known in the magic community, now lectures on the circuit as well selling his DVDs. He was a teacher of Las Vegas magician Jeff McBride and Seth Kotkin who used the ideas and tricks taught by Sheridan to later become known as David Copperfield.
