Roving Magician
Jered Blake Schaugaard is from the small town of Anchorage, Alaska. Although not born there, he arrived there at the age of two and considers it his home. He was born on December 22, 1972, the oldest of what would soon be four children. Magic would not become a part of his life until one below zero, Boy Scout camping trip.

Everyone was huddled around the campfire trying to stay warm, when the Camp Leader pulled out a handkerchief and asked everyone to gather in. He proceeded to vanish small objects into seemingly thin air and then reproduce them from anywhere, or was it nowhere? Afterwards, Jered spoke with the Scout Master asking him where he could learn to do this. In return for his interest, he was given a worn catalog from Tannen’s Magic Shop. (He still has the catalog, but, to this day, he has never ordered a single item from it).

At the age of twenty-one, Jered was still just a magic hobbyist and struggling to stay entertained in the small town where he grew up. Deciding to join the Air Force, he was whisked off to Texas for a short time and then, off to California. There he would finally find his first magic shop in a small building on the wharf in Monterey.

Jered had finally gotten the bug, when he was transferred to Tucson, AZ. This is where he would really begin to learn the “art of magic”. His first lessons came from one of Tucson’s greatest, Bruce Martyn. Over the next few years, with the help of his fellow magicians, he would get his first job performing for the Y.M.C.A. It was a charity event, but the exposure to the rush of performing became addictive.

Since then, he has become a member of both the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians. He has dazzled audiences in numerous magical functions, supporting both organizations, to include monthly close-up performances at the Gas Light Theater and the yearly Stars of Magic at the TCC Leo Rich Theater, both in the state of Arizona. He has performed for a long list of Arizona clients: TGI Friday’s, Windsong Village, American Copper Council, and the Westin La Paloma Resort, just to name a few.

Because of the Military, Jered was able to travel Panama, the native country of his beautiful wife Thelma, and had several opportunities to unite with magicians from Panama City. In 1999, the magicians of Círculo Mágico Mago Chang, IBM Ring 331, presented him with a plaque thanking him for his friendship, and his devotion and loyalty to the magic art.