Giancarlo Scalia Refined Italian card magic powered by pure sleight of hand
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Giancarlo Scalia

Refined Italian card magic powered by pure sleight of hand

Giancarlo Scalia is a performing magician specializing in close-up magic. Television achievements include winning Penn & Teller: Fool Us, successfully stumping the legendary duo with original deceptive artistry. Regularly featured on the bill at Teatro Encantado.

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Career overview

Giancarlo Scalia at a glance

Giancarlo Scalia is a close-up magician, known for card magic and visual sleight of hand. Giancarlo Scalia's career includes fooling Penn & Teller on Penn & Teller: Fool Us and being billed 1 week at The Magic Castle in Hollywood. Giancarlo Scalia has upcoming performances in Madrid.

Magic
Close-Up Magic
Next public show
Nov 28, 2026
Public dates
1
Page updated
Oct 18, 2026
The performer

About Giancarlo Scalia

Giancarlo Scalia is an Italian close-up magician and teacher specializing in technically refined card magic. A current magic-academy profile documents his professional development and teaching role, while his performer-published 2025 Fool Us video presents a classic card plot executed entirely through sleight of hand and records his successful trophy performance. The evidence supports an active artist and instructor with a public educational presence. Research did not find a dependable standalone performer website, direct booking contact, general event-service offer or verified current home city, so those operational fields should remain open.

Penn & Teller: Fool Us

Television Appearances

One appearance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and it fooled them.

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The Magic Castle

Billed 1 week at the Castle

Castle debut 2025, on the Castle’s published schedules as the archive records them. Rooms: Peller (1).

Every week on the record · What is on at the Castle now

Performance history · Past shows

Performance History

FindMagic has documented 11 individually dated public performances across 2 venues in 2 cities from 2021 to 2026.

11 Performances
2 Venues
2 Cities

Shows recorded across FindMagic listings. Tour dates and earlier appearances are actively being backfilled.

1 recorded performance · 18 October 2026

Winners Gala Show – Secrets Session IV

Bill Cheung Close-Up Magic Theater · Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria

With Michael Vincent, Andrea Baioni, Xavier Tapias, Christina Nyman, Christian Engblom, Magic Christian, Bill Cheung, Kiko Pastur, Shimpei Katsuragawa, Shawn Farquhar, Liam Ball, Hernán Maccagno, Joshua Kenneth, Tino Plaz, Sara Rodríguez, Robin Deville, Anca & Lucca, Hanno Rhomberg, Rudolf Heuer, Sylvain Juzan, Dr. Gábor Szabó, Joachim Solberg, Wolfgang Moser, Ondřej Pšenička, Lee Alex

1 recorded performance · 17 October 2026

International Close-Up Dinner Gala Show – Secrets Session

Bill Cheung Close-Up Magic Theater · Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria

With Michael Vincent, Andrea Baioni, Xavier Tapias, Christina Nyman, Christian Engblom, Magic Christian, Bill Cheung, Kiko Pastur, Shimpei Katsuragawa, Shawn Farquhar, Liam Ball, Hernán Maccagno, Joshua Kenneth, Tino Plaz, Sara Rodríguez, Robin Deville, Anca & Lucca, Hanno Rhomberg, Rudolf Heuer, Sylvain Juzan, Dr. Gábor Szabó, Joachim Solberg, Wolfgang Moser, Ondřej Pšenička, Lee Alex

Archive Methodology & Provenance: FindMagic’s performance archive is compiled from confirmed box office inventories, venue calendars, and historic festival programs. It documents verified public appearances and is not intended to represent an exhaustive lifetime career log.
Where to find Giancarlo

Venues

Teatro Encantado

Madrid, Madrid · next on Nov 28

Bill Cheung Close-Up Magic Theater

Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria · previously

The repertoire

Magic Style & Disciplines

Close-Up Magic

Sleight of hand at intimate distance — cards, coins, and sleight of hand.

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Tanto — Sat NOV 28 · 7:00 PM · Teatro Encantado
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Teatro Encantado

Madrid, Madrid next on Nov 28
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