16 Facts About Lee Asher

Lee Asher was born on 1976 and is a close-up magician noted for originating new card tricks and hypnotic sleight of hand moves.

Lee Asher is considered an expert in playing cards, and as a collector is especially known for his work with 52 Plus Joker, the American Playing Card Collectors Club, of which he is the serving President.

Lee Asher has served as a magic consultant for professional magicians such as Greg Frewin.

Lee Asher was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as the older of two children.

Lee Asher's father Mark Horowitz managed an optometric practice, but was a semi-professional magician who learned magic as a boy from Al Flosso and Lou Tannen in New York City in the 1960s.

Lee Asher had a job doing magic demonstrations at the Magic Mansion, and from 1996 to 1997 worked at Caesars Magical Empire in Caesars Palace to perform card magic under the character title "Cardius Sharkus", working with world-famous magicians including Earl Nelson, Jeff McBride, Chappy Brazil, Joey Burton, Daryl, Michael Ammar, Jonathan Pendragon.

Lee Asher attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida until 1994, and then enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, from which Lee graduated with honors.

Lee Asher knew that he wanted to be a magician from an early age.

Lee Asher earned first place as Junior Close-up Champion of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, and was a featured lecturer at the inaugural Session Convention, a British convention for close-up magicians, in 2006.

Since then, Lee Asher has appeared multiple times on prime time television, on channels such as the Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, and 'The World's Greatest Magic on NBC, delivered lectures on magic around the world, and made guest appearances at magic camps and magic podcasts.

Lee Asher has published extensively, including in magic industry magazines such as Trapdoor, Channel One, The Penumbra, The Magic Circle, Apocalypse, Labyrinth, and Genii Magazine.

Lee Asher is part of CURIOSIDADES, a group of magicians formed by BJ Bueno to bring magic to Bueno's home country.

Lee Asher is highly regarded for his contributions and expertise as a collector of playing cards.

Lee Asher is actively involved in the publication of their magazine, Card Culture.

Lee Asher is known for his passion for Jerry's Nugget playing cards, and is considered instrumental in popularizing the original decks, and in 2019 spearheaded a very successful project to recreate them, with a Kickstarter project raising almost half a million dollars with the help of over 4,000 backers.

Lee Asher is 6'3 weights 191 pounds and his birthday is August 25,1988.