His name is Gerry McCambridge. He is a native New Yorker, born October 31st,
which happens to be Halloween. McCambridge has been a professional Mentalist
for over 20 years. At an early age, McCambridge was not your typical young and
impressionable child. He became very interested in the workings of the mind,
specifically; he targeted how those around him communicated with each other and
towards him.
He not only listened to what people were saying but observed their
gestures, posture, eye movement, and tone of voice. McCambridge realized he was
able to tap into people's minds, and figure out what people were thinking.
McCambridge listened, watched, observed and strengthened his intuition as he
grew. People in McCambridge's life became so intrigued with his unusual but
fascinating gift that at the age of 10 he started giving fun demonstrations
showcasing some of his abilities.
At first, he performed minute long demonstrations for friends at parties. To
add to his total performance time, he also studied comedy and magic and mixed
those into his performing repertoire. Between the three crafts, he was able to
give enough of a full length performance to be able to charge for his
entertainment. Over the years, the mentalism portion of the performance kept
growing, and the magic portion was slowly phased out.
While perfecting his stage show, McCambridge worked at a psychiatric hospital
where he was able to question and discuss the functioning of the human brain
with staff doctors. This gave him partial understanding of his manipulative
gift and aided in fine-tuning his intuitive abilities. Eventually he left his
position at the hospital to concentrate full-time on his performing talents.
McCambridge attributes some of his intuitive ability to his father who was a
NYC Detective. As a detective, he was always getting into the minds of
suspects and using skillful verbal manipulation to obtain information
pertaining to his cases. The young McCambridge would watch his fathers
techniques and apply them to his performing routines. The people Gerry
performs for, their level of cooperation and willingness, plays a significant
role in McCambridge's success.
He has also studied Memory Techniques, reading Body Language cues, simple
Psychology, stage Hypnosis, Linguistics, Statistics, Law of Averages,
Non-Verbal Communication, NLP, ESP, Acting, Theater, and Stand Up Comedy.
McCambridge uses his mental abilities purely for entertainment purposes. Being
a father, Gerry is very conscious of using his talent in positive and
entertaining ways. His purpose is to get people excited and involved without
using any fancy props, violent or sexually suggestive images?just positive,
intelligent, and thought-provoking material.
In 2003, Gerry wrote, executive produced and starred in his own one hour prime
time network television special which continues to air internationally. In 2004
he performed his one man show off-Broadway to sell out crowds. McCambridge does
the unthinkable?he GETS PEOPLE THINKING!
