# Thirty-five years of walking up to strangers.

> Carroll Baker is a close-up comedy magician in Columbus, Ohio: full time since 1991, more than 10,000 shows, and a six-day run at the Magic Castle in Hollywood.

Web page: [https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/about/](https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/about/)

About

I am Carroll Baker, a comedy magician and mentalist in Columbus, Ohio. I have been a full-time professional magician since 1991 and I have performed more than ten thousand shows.

[Prom](https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/prom/) [After Prom](https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/after-prom/)

Who you are booking

## The same job as a prom, in a nicer outfit.

For close to thirty years I worked restaurants in Columbus, most weeks seven nights a week, going table to table to people who were mid-meal and mid-conversation and had not asked for a magician.

That is the same job as a prom, in a nicer outfit. You get about five seconds to read a table and decide what they will give you, and about ninety more to earn the rest of it. Doing that a few thousand times is the only training that matters for a room like yours.

- Full-time professional since 1991, more than 10,000 shows performed
- A six-day run in the Close Up Gallery at the Magic Castle in Hollywood
- Society of American Magicians Houdini-Thurston Award and Magician of the Year
- Seven-time International Brotherhood of Magicians Close-Up Magician of the Year
- I already work in Ohio schools, teaching after-school magic classes and performing assemblies

The part that should matter to a committee

## If your students do not enjoy it, you pay nothing.

Every booking carries the same promise, and it is not a gimmick. Somebody on your committee has to stand up afterward and own the choice of entertainment. That risk should be mine, not theirs. In thirty-five years nobody has ever claimed it.

## Planning something else?

This site is for proms and after proms. Each of these has its own site:

- School assemblies: [schoolmagicassemblies.com](https://schoolmagicassemblies.com)
- Corporate events and weddings: [carrollbaker.com](https://www.carrollbaker.com)
- Birthday parties, Cub Scout banquets and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs: [magicparty.org](https://magicparty.org)
- Conjuring for Cancer, my keynote talk: [conjuringforcancer.com](https://www.conjuringforcancer.com)

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## Contact

- Call or text Carroll Baker: 614-800-8909
- Booking inquiry form, prom: [https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/prom/#book](https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/prom/#book)
- Booking inquiry form, after prom: [https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/after-prom/#book](https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/after-prom/#book)
- About Carroll Baker: [https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/about/](https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/about/)
- Contact: [https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/contact/](https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/contact/)
- Site guide for AI agents: [https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/llms.txt](https://promandafterpromentertainment.com/llms.txt)