ADAM WILBER / THE STORY

A lifetime of
“what if?”

Magician. Inventor. Author. Speaker.
A person who never quite learned to leave
an impossible idea alone.

Adam Wilber seated beside a window with a deck of cards — SOME OF THE WORK HAPPENS LONG BEFORE THE SHOW.

THE QUESTION THAT STARTED EVERYTHING

What if
you could?

30+YEARS IN MAGIC

For more than three decades, Adam has turned curiosity into a living. On stage, it looks impossible. Behind the scenes, it is a life of asking better questions.

His work moves between performing, inventing, writing and speaking. Each asks something a little different of him. All begin with the same instinct: look again. There may be another way.

That work has taken Adam to Penn & Teller’s Fool Us, where he fooled the duo; to a performance for President George H. W. Bush; and to the TEDxBeaconStreet stage.

For the people booking him, those appearances are useful proof. But a performance still has to work for the audience right in front of him. The right humor. The right pace. Enough attention to make the whole room feel part of it.

Adam is based in New Hampshire and performs nationally and internationally.

Adam leaning toward a seated audience during a live performance

THE ROOM IS THE REASON.

It only works
when it reaches someone.

THE INVENTOR BEHIND THE ENTERTAINER

From “what if”
to “watch this.”

A good idea is only the beginning. Adam's work as an inventor means imagining an effect, making it possible, then finding out what happens when real people see it.

His original creations and teaching collection give you a look at that side of the work—the thinking that happens before the applause.

Step inside the inventor’s collection