LEE DARROW is a native of the Chicago area. Born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, he graduated from Oak Park High School, went on to study at Triton Community College, Northeastern Illinois University and Eastern Michigan University.

LEE has trained in hypnosis with of Mindsight Consulting, Mike Brown and Steve Lankton at Spectrum Psychological Services in Ann Arbor, Michigan and later earned his certification as a hypnotherapist with the National Guild of Hypnotists through MindSight Consulting, under the tutelage of George and Paula Baranowski.

LEE did his first hypnosis show at a local coffee house in Oak Park, IL in 1969. In early 1973, LEE began his career as a hypnosis lecturer and Research Associate with the Illinois Center for Parapsychological Research at Northeastern Illinois University, where, among other things, he developed an interest in sleight of hand magic. He has been a presenter on hypnosis and/or magic at conventions including the International Transactional Analysis Convention, the Americal College of Physicians and Surgeons and the First World Congress on Neuro-Linguistic Programming. LEE also has done several promotional stunts, including one recently for the Woody Allen/DreamWorks film, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion!

LEE’s primary focus in hypnosis is entertainment but recently, the Grays Lake, IL Police Department called on him to help a crime victim recall more events from his home break-in.LEE’s help proved "very valuable," according to the detectives working on the case. But showbiz is where his heart is. "Bringing hypnosis to people in a fun and interesting way is my way of giving back to a field that has given so much to me," LEE says.

LEE’s first magic show was done when he was about five years old. His grandfather, Kenneth Darrow, was an avid amateur magician and LEE caught the bug from him. But, as the years went on, LEE moved away from magic until his late teens, when he met the legendary Heba Haba Al (Andrucci) at the equally legendary New York Lounge in Chicago. LEE learned magic from Heba Haba, Skeets Mallun, Tony Andruzzi, Michael Ammar’s seminar and with many other of the top magicians of our time. His specialty is close up magic, but he is equally at home in front of hundreds at after banquet programs and trade show booths. LEE's comedic style and strong presence adds powerfully to any message your firm might want to deliver.

LEE has been the Official Magician to Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament in Schaumburg, Illinois, since 1994. He has had recurring engagements with Sandals Resorts, as House Magician to Michael Jordan's Restaurant in Chicago, Pappadeaux Restaurant in Arlington Heights, (IL) as well as being on-call magician to Planet Hollywood at Gurnee Mills in Gurnee, IL. LEE also travels nationally as corporate magician to companies like Siemens, Toshiba America, Marchon Eyewear, Novus Card Systems (Discover Card) and the Chicago Bulls. Celebrity performances have included W. Clement Stone, the cast of Star Trek, BB King, Oprah Winfrey's New Year's Party, Dennis Rodman's New Year's Party at Navy Pier, Mancow’s Morning Madhouse and Donny Osmond and his family.

He is a Master Tarot Reader, Creator of the Fantasy Runes System, a 25-year student of the I Ching and an accomplished Palm Reader. Never predicting gloom and doom, LEE believes that the future is changeable and that by knowing the forces at work in a person's life, those forces can be directed for health, wealth and personal improvement. Lee successfully predicted the outcome of the last Presidential Election - correct to the number of votes, the outcome of the Clinton Impeachment Trial, again getting the vote totals correct and predicted the date AND time that the Dow Jones Market topped 10,000. (Note: All readings are for entertainment purposes only)

• Lee has garnered the Midwest Hypnosis Convention's Originality Award for innovative techniques in hypnosis.
• He was elected as President to the International Brotherhood of Magicians Ring 210 in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1977.
• LEE's magical creations were featured in the LEE DARROW ISSUE of INVOCATION Magazine (1989) by special request of the publisher.
• Lee's original mentalism and bizarrist magical effects have been featured in first three isues of the new magical publication Magic Over Mind.
• LEE was the featured hypnotist at the National Guild of Hypnotists Convention 2000 and was also featured at the McDonald’s Y2K Disaster Recovery Party at McDonald’s Headquarters, in Oak Brook, IL.

LEE has appeared on:

• WGN Radio,
• WLS-TV (ABC TV Chicago)
• WGN-TV
• Fox TV’s 9:30 Magazine twice,
• WCKG Radio,
• WDRQ Radio,
• Psychic R U TV,
• WAAM Radio,
• Q101 Radio,
• WDCB Radio
• and even hosted his own radio show on WONX in Chicago for two years.

Lee has had the honor of performing for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Celebrations at Home fund raisers for the past several years along with Northwestern University's Dance Marathon for 16 years. He has also worked for Little City, numerous Special Olympics parties, Mott Children’s Hospital (Ann Arbor, MI), Children’s Hospital in Chicago (fund raisers), the Leukemia Society, STARLIGHT Children's Fund, Ohio YMCA, the Girl Scouts of America regional awards banquet, Walk For Life and several fund raising events for the American Cancer Association.