Miami & Miami Beach

Miami corporate evenings are built around a venue and a view, with a tight AV schedule and delegates who flew in that morning. Mentalism earns its place in the two hours the programme does not cover: the arrivals hour, performed guest to guest, and the twenty-minute seated piece after dinner that gives a room of strangers one shared story.

Three seasons as resident magician at Kiki on the River mean the hotel and restaurant rooms of Miami Beach and Brickell are familiar ground — how a terrace carries sound, when a waterfront dinner is ready to sit still.

On the recordResident magician at Kiki on the River, 2023–2026 · corporate evenings at Queen Miami Beach · a wedding reception at Andaz Miami Beach (September 2026, with SevenDesign) · Trump International Sunny Isles · Mr. C Residences, Coconut Grove · Formula 1 race-week events, including the GR1D Baoli afterparty

Palm Beach & West Palm Beach

Palm Beach books differently from Miami: club dinners, estate evenings and the charity season from January to April, where the room is seated, older, and has seen every band on the island. A mentalism piece between the speeches and the auction works because it asks for attention rather than volume, and it ends before the paddle raise.

Private dinners of twenty to forty guests — the island's most common format — suit close-up mentalism at the table, where the host's guests become the material.

On the recordPerformed at The Breakers, Palm Beach · private events in West Palm Beach (March 2025) and Delray Beach (March 2026)

Fort Lauderdale & Hollywood

Fort Lauderdale's evenings happen on the water and in the restaurants along it: yacht receptions, marina openings, VIP dinners where the room is loud and standing. Close-up mentalism is the format that survives a boat — no stage, no power, nothing to move when the deck does.

Hollywood adds the conference side: the Seminole Hard Rock ballrooms, where a seated set piece after the formal programme is the one moment the whole delegation experiences together.

On the recordJay's Steakhouse VIP pre-opening, Fort Lauderdale (May 2025) · Netevia business conference, Seminole Hard Rock, Hollywood (2025)

Naples & Southwest Florida

Naples is the quietest market on this page and the most private: Port Royal and Old Naples dinners, Fifth Avenue receptions, groups of twenty to sixty who know each other. Mentalism here is close-up and personal — a guest's own thought, named at the table — rather than a stage piece.

For a welcome dinner or a milestone birthday it replaces the speech nobody wanted to give.

On the recordGordon Pointe, Naples — a Dawn McKenna Group event, April 2025

Orlando

Orlando is conferences and incentive programmes: convention hotels, five hundred delegates, a gala on the last night with a full AV crew already in the room. The format that fits is the twenty-to-thirty-minute mentalism piece with close-up work projected to screen, placed after the awards and before the room breaks up — the slot no speaker wants and every agenda has.

For smaller incentive dinners the guest-to-guest format works through the reception without touching the running order.

Sarasota & Tampa Bay

Sarasota's season is cultural and philanthropic — galas, patron dinners, Longboat Key and Siesta Key private evenings — and Tampa adds the corporate calendar across the bay. Both are seated-dinner markets, which is where a mentalism set piece does its best work: one shared moment for a room that has already heard the speeches.

Matteo has no Sarasota or Tampa engagement to name here yet; the formats and the fees are the same as everywhere else in Florida, and the date question takes one message.