Co-Producer
Dal Sanders is the President of T.A.O.M. 2024 and PNP of the Society of American Magicians. He is Co-producer of Magic Texas 2024.
Dal was elected to President of the Society of American Magicians (S.A.M) in 2013. While Dal was president of the S.A.M., he and Eric Hogue convinced the U.S. House of Representatives to recognize magic as an art.
Dal Sanders was given an Award of Merit from the Academy of Magical Arts (The Magic Castle) in 2019 for his efforts in having the United States House of Representatives recognize Magic as an art form, and in instigating the U.S. Government to further that recognition in the form of a postage stamp.
Dal Sanders has been performing magic all around the world for more than 30 years.
Co-Producer
Mark Weidhaas was the S.A.M. National President in 2010-11.
He has been the S.A.M.’s Convention Chair for the past decade, and was instrumental in holding the first FISM North American Championships in Pittsburgh in 2011 and the Combined S.A.M./IBM NACM in St Louis in 2014. He, and his convention team, has been able to transform the S.A.M. Convnetion into one of the top annual conventions in the world.
Mark is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado USA where he enjoys the Rocky
Mountains, kayaking and biking. He also enjoy travel, and has attended the Blackpool Magic Convention for the past 10 years.
Sponsorships
Eric Hogue is the current Vice President of the Teas Association of Magicians, and a former President of the Dallas Magic Club.
Eric was elected as the 45th Mayor of Wylie, Texas on May 10, 2008, and served his community for over 12 years, as the city’s longest serving mayor.
Eric is also the published author of the book, Clinky the Clown and the Secret of Happyville. A book written for 9 to 12-year-old's that focuses on overcoming prejudice.
Eric spearheaded efforts with U.S. Representative Pete Sessions and SAM President Dal Sanders to have magic recognized as an art form by the United States Government and succeeded in having Congress recognize it within the Congressional Record of the 113th Congress in 2014.
Two years later, Eric along with David Copperfield, worked to expand those efforts and have a binding resolution created and approved by Congress. They addressed the members of the United States House of Representatives in support of House Resolution 642, on June 9, 2016, proclaiming magic as an art form.
Contest Chair
Joan Caesar is the founder of the Canadian Association of Magicians. She has judged at FISM conventions in China, South Korea, and Sweden, as well as
conventions in England, Italy, France, Taiwan, Canada and the United States. She
was one of the organizers and Chair of the Jury for the 2008, 2014, 2017 and 2020
North American FISM Championships of Magic.
Joan has been stage manager for several FISM conventions including FISM in South Korea and FISM-Europe held in 2021 and most recently at FISM in Quebec City.
She is a lifetime member of the Canadian Association of Magicians, Society of
American Magicians and the International Brotherhood of Magicians and was
president of the IBM in 2008-2009. Joan is co-director the invitation only 4F convention along with Glenn Brown.
Finance & Webmaster
Derrel Allen is a life member of S.A.M., Treasurer of the Dallas Magic Club (S.A.M. Assembly 13) and Finance Chair & Webmaster of Magic Texas 2024. He also owns Total Online Marketing LLC in Allen, TX.
Website (UI)
Aaron Stone (Aar-on) is a specialist in entertainment marketing and branding. As a magician himself, Aaron takes pride in presenting magicians at their best.
Sometimes considered a Concierge of Magic, Aaron's talents and skills include but are not limited to: Photography, Cinematography, Graphic and Print Design, Printmaking, Websites, and Voiceover work.
Aaron is the President of the Fort Worth Magician's Club, IBM Ring 15 "The Ren Clark Ring." As a performer, he has seen two national tours, several radio and television appearances, and is a teacher for the Dallas Magic Academy.
At 35, Aaron resides in Texas with his two cats, Castiel and Cinema.
Registration Co-Chair
Leticia Ferrer is so in love with her husband, she followed him into the Dallas Magic Club. Since then she’s taken up Magic as yet another hobby.
Her first hobby is chasing the Magic of Total Solar Eclipses all over the planet, traveling to seven continents and six oceans to get in the path of every total solar eclipse since 1998. Leticia Ferrer traveled all seven continents and six oceans to get in the path of every total solar eclipse since 1998. She recently devoted her time doing talks, media interviews and a successful podcast Totality Talks- the Solar Eclipse Podcast promoting the April 08, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse that passed over Texas.
She now has time for the Dallas Magic Club and is so excited about the 100th Anniversary and the FISM contest here in the DFW Metroplex. She is sharing the role of Registrar for FISM-NACM with her husband, Daniel Brookshier.
Registration Co-Chair
Hospitality Co-Chair
Trixie Bond and Cinde Sanders co-chair Hospitality for MagicTexas 2024
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Hospitality Co-Chair
Trixie Bond and Cinde Sanders co-chair Hospitality for MagicTexas 2024
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Dealer Co-Chair
Dan Rodriguez and Bill Ingram co-chair the Dealer's Room for MagicTexas 2024.
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Dealer Co-Chair
Dan Rodriguez and Bill Ingram co-chair the Dealer's Room for MagicTexas 2024.
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