Dallas Magician Zak Mirz Has Just 6 Minutes to Fool Penn and Teller on Their CW Show.
, the old adage that says"a good magician never reveals their secrets" is more than just an occupational mantra. It's a rule that shapes his career and life.Now those secrets that helped him cope in life will face the ultimate test of modern magic. Mirz will perform an original magic trick this Friday on the CW showin which magicians and illusionists perform tricks for the legendary punk magic duo Penn Jillette and Teller .
Mirz's love and fascination with magic started at a young age from a dark moment in his life. His father, Yousef, an Iranian native who came to America during the Iranian Revolution in the 1970s, was murdered when Zak was just a year old, shot outside the Fort Worth restaurant he owned, where he also married Zak's mother, Marzia. She came to America from Afghanistan, fleeing from the Soviet-Afghan War in the early '80s.
"We all thought it was real magic, and while all magic isn't real, the experience someone can have because of magic is very real," Mirz says."It was very real to me and my family." The tour taught him everything he needed to know about staging illusions in a live space and helped him launch his own show. The mentorships he developed with seasoned magicians Jim Monroe and Rob Domenech taught him more than just how to find someone's card or make something levitate.
] aren't even magicians. They're mathematicians, physics majors, all sorts of backgrounds. They take another passion and put into their magic. What's in me, what my passions are and how can we make that into a routine where my audience cares for it, there's such a delicate balance."
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