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| years_active = 1974–present
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'''Teller''' (born '''Raymond Joseph Teller'''; February 14, 1948) is an American magician, illusionist, writer, actor, painter, and film director. He is half of the comedy magic duo ], along with ], where he usually does not speak during performances. He is a fellow of the ] (a ] ] ] that also lists Jillette as a fellow), which is featured prominently in the duo's ] series '']''.{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}} Teller legally ] his name from "Raymond Joseph Teller" to the ] "Teller".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/home/2007-11-15-teller-at-home_N.htm|title=At home: Teller's magical Vegas retreat speaks volumes|publisher=]|last=della Cava |first= Marco R.|date=November 16, 2007|access-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/12/penn-and-teller-gerard-bakardy-rose-shadows-trick/|title=Penn & Teller: Rogue Magician Is EXPOSING Our Secrets!!!|publisher=]|date=April 12, 2012|access-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref> '''Teller''' (born '''Raymond Joseph Teller'''; February 14, 1948)<!-- There is consensus for Teller's birth name to remain here. Please see the talk page for more information. --> is an American ]. He is half of the comedy magic duo ], along with ], and usually does not speak during performances. Teller is a ] Fellow at the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cato.org/people/-teller |website=www.cato.org|title=Teller – Cato Institute}}</ref>


==Early life== ==Early life==
Teller was born Raymond Joseph Teller<ref>{{cite web |title=Penn and Teller |access-date=October 20, 2014 |website=The Advocates |url=http://www.theadvocates.org/libertarianism-101/libertarian-celebrities/penn-and-teller/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221213624/http://www.theadvocates.org/libertarianism-101/libertarian-celebrities/Penn-and-Teller/ |archive-date=December 21, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Teller |access-date=October 20, 2014 |website=Encyclopedia.com |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Teller.aspx}}</ref> in ],<ref name=pennstate>{{cite web | url = http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Teller__Raymond_Joseph.html | title = Teller | first = Kathleen | last = Morrow | date = Summer 2007 | publisher = ], Pennsylvania Center for the Book | access-date= October 8, 2013}} Biography based on sources including "Email correspondence with Teller. 12–14 August 2007".</ref> the son of Irene B. (''née'' Derrickson) and Israel Max "Joseph" Teller (1913–2004).<ref name="SSDI">{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/ns/obitfinder/ssdi-search.aspx?daterange=2000-2009&firstname=joseph&lastname=teller&countryid=1&stateid=43&affiliateid=-1|title= Obituaries: Newspaper and Funeral Home Obituaries and Death Notices from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand|work=legacy.com}}</ref><ref name=pubweekly /> His father, who was of ] descent, was born in ] and grew up in Philadelphia. His mother was from a ] farming family. They met as painters attending art school at ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/the_exorcist_at_the_geffen_no_green_vomit_but_plenty_of_evil_20120627|title='The Exorcist' at the Geffen: No green vomit, but plenty of evil – The Ticket|work=Jewish Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/2004-07-28/news/25372082_1_penn-teller-paintings-abstract-works|title=Joseph Teller, artist, father of magician|work=philly-archives}}</ref> His mother was ], and Teller was raised as "a sort of half-assed Methodist".<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/Hollywood_Now_The_Monuments_Men_Teller_Directs_Jason_Biggs.shtml| title= Hollywood Now: ''The Monuments Men'', Teller Directs, Jason B |work=interfaithfamily.com}}</ref> He graduated from Philadelphia's ] in 1965, and in 1969 graduated from ] with a ] in ]. He became a high-school ] teacher.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/what-classrooms-can-learn-from-magic/425100/|title=Education Is Performance Art|last=Lahey|first=Jessica|work=The Atlantic|access-date=February 1, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> Teller was born in ], Pennsylvania,<ref>{{cite web |title=Penn and Teller |access-date=October 20, 2014 |website=The Advocates |url=http://www.theadvocates.org/libertarianism-101/libertarian-celebrities/penn-and-teller/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221213624/http://www.theadvocates.org/libertarianism-101/libertarian-celebrities/Penn-and-Teller/ |archive-date=December 21, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Teller |access-date=October 20, 2014 |website=Encyclopedia.com |url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Teller.aspx}}</ref><ref name=pennstate>{{cite web | url = http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Teller__Raymond_Joseph.html | title = Teller | first = Kathleen | last = Morrow | date =Summer 2007 | publisher = ], Pennsylvania Center for the Book | access-date = October 8, 2013 | archive-date = May 15, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130515190338/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Teller__Raymond_Joseph.html | url-status = dead }} Biography based on sources including "Email correspondence with Teller. 12–14 August 2007".</ref> the son of Irene B. (''née'' Derrickson) and Israel Max "Joseph" Teller (1913–2004).<ref name="SSDI">{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/ns/obitfinder/ssdi-search.aspx?daterange=2000-2009&firstname=joseph&lastname=teller&countryid=1&stateid=43&affiliateid=-1|title= Obituaries: Newspaper and Funeral Home Obituaries and Death Notices from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand|work=legacy.com}}</ref><ref name=pubweekly /> His father, who was of ] descent, was born in ], New York, and grew up in Philadelphia. His mother was from a ] farming family. They met as painters attending art school at ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/the_exorcist_at_the_geffen_no_green_vomit_but_plenty_of_evil_20120627|title='The Exorcist' at the Geffen: No green vomit, but plenty of evil – The Ticket|work=Jewish Journal|date=June 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/2004-07-28/news/25372082_1_penn-teller-paintings-abstract-works|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116134521/http://articles.philly.com/2004-07-28/news/25372082_1_penn-teller-paintings-abstract-works|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 16, 2014|title=Joseph Teller, artist, father of magician|work=philly-archives}}</ref> His mother was ], and Teller was raised as "a sort of half-assed Methodist".<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/Hollywood_Now_The_Monuments_Men_Teller_Directs_Jason_Biggs.shtml| title= Hollywood Now: ''The Monuments Men'', Teller Directs, Jason B| work= interfaithfamily.com| access-date= February 6, 2014| archive-date= October 6, 2017| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171006012821/http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/Hollywood_Now_The_Monuments_Men_Teller_Directs_Jason_Biggs.shtml| url-status= dead}}</ref> He graduated from Philadelphia's ] in 1965, and in 1969 graduated from ] with a Bachelor of Arts in ]. He became a high-school ] teacher.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/what-classrooms-can-learn-from-magic/425100/|title=Education Is Performance Art|last=Lahey|first=Jessica|work=The Atlantic|access-date=February 1, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>

At some point, Teller legally ] his name to the ] "Teller", his family surname.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/home/2007-11-15-teller-at-home_N.htm|title=At home: Teller's magical Vegas retreat speaks volumes|publisher=]|last=della Cava |first= Marco R.|date=November 16, 2007|access-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/12/penn-and-teller-gerard-bakardy-rose-shadows-trick/|title=Penn & Teller: Rogue Magician Is EXPOSING Our Secrets!!!|publisher=]|date=April 12, 2012|access-date=June 27, 2012}}</ref> He had reportedly been using the mononym professionally since, at least, some time before the 1975 formation of the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Trillin |first=Calvin |date=May 15, 1989 |title=A Couple Of Eccentric Guys |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/05/15/a-couple-of-eccentric-guys |magazine=New Yorker |access-date=March 25, 2023}}</ref> By December 2000, he reported that his own parents were calling him Teller.<ref>{{cite web |title= Dec. 7, 2000: Teller of "Penn & Teller" |url=http://www.lasvegas.com/events/chat/120700teller.html |website=lasvegas.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010417130755/http://www.lasvegas.com/events/chat/120700teller.html |access-date=March 24, 2023|archive-date=April 17, 2001 }}</ref>

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⚫ Teller ] ] and ] at ] in ].<ref>{{Citation|title=Penn & Teller on Broadway {{!}} Talks At Google|date=August 4, 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5siSa4A9M_Q&t=210|access-date=August 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode | title = Reparations | episode-link = List of Bullshit! episodes | series = Penn & Teller: Bullshit! | series-link = Penn & Teller: Bullshit! | network = ] | airdate = May 15, 2006 | season = 4 | number = 7 }}</ref><ref name="The Atlantic 2016-01-21">{{cite news |last=Lahey |first=Jessica |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/what-classrooms-can-learn-from-magic/425100/ |title=Teaching: Just Like Performing Magic |work=] |date=January 21, 2016 |access-date=January 24, 2016 |quote=Teller taught high school Latin for six years before he left to pursue a career in magic with Penn... }}</ref> In 2001, he was inducted into the Central High School Hall of Fame.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The CHS Alumni Hall of Fame |url=https://centralhighalumni.com/the-chs-alumni-hall-of-fame/ |access-date=2024-07-21 |website=AACHS |language=en-US}}</ref>


⚫ ===Health===
⚫ Teller and his show business partner ] do not drink or use drugs. Teller did drink alcohol in his early 20s but stopped and later said, "It made me stupid and careless and I disliked that. It also ruined my sleep. I'm just scared of drugs. Messing with your brain seems really dangerous."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/03/05/DI2008030501716.html|title=Teller Speaks!|date=March 6, 2008|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref> Teller ] ] and ] at ] in ].<ref>{{Citation|last=Talks at Google|title=Penn & Teller on Broadway {{!}} Talks At Google|date=August 4, 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5siSa4A9M_Q&t=210|access-date=August 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode | title = Reparations | episode-link = List of Bullshit! episodes | series = Penn & Teller: Bullshit! | series-link = Penn & Teller: Bullshit! | network = ] | airdate = May 15, 2006 | season = 4 | number = 7 }}</ref><ref name="The Atlantic 2016-01-21">{{cite news |last=Lahey |first=Jessica |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/what-classrooms-can-learn-from-magic/425100/ |title=Teaching: Just Like Performing Magic |work=] |date=January 21, 2016 |access-date=January 24, 2016 |quote=Teller taught high school Latin for six years before he left to pursue a career in magic with Penn... }}</ref> In 2001 he was inducted into the Central High School Hall of Fame.
In 2018–2019, Teller had three back surgeries over 18 months. In late September 2022, he underwent quadruple-bypass heart surgery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/entertainment-columns/kats/as-teller-recovers-its-the-penn-michael-show-at-the-rio-2666234/|title=As Teller recovers, it's the Penn & Michael show at the Rio|date=October 28, 2022}}</ref>


==Career== ==Career==
===Performing=== ===Performing===
{{main|Penn & Teller}} {{main|Penn & Teller}}
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Teller began performing with his friend Weir Chrisemer as The ] Memorial Society for the Preservation of Unusual and Disgusting Music. He met ] in 1974, and, with Chrisemer, they became a three-person act called Asparagus Valley Cultural Society, which started at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and subsequently played in San Francisco. In 1981, Jillette and Teller began performing exclusively together as Penn & Teller, an act that continues to this day. On April 5, 2013, Penn and Teller were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the live performance category. Their star, the 2,494th awarded, is near the one dedicated to ].<ref name="WalkofFame">{{cite web | url=http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/04/05/magicians-penn-teller-set-for-walk-of-fame-star/ | title=Magicians Penn & Teller Get Star on Walk of Fame | publisher=CBS Los Angeles | date=April 5, 2013 | access-date=April 7, 2013}}</ref> The following day they were recognized by the ] with the Magicians of the Year award.<ref name=WalkofFame /> Teller began performing with his friend Weir Chrisemer as The ] Memorial Society for the Preservation of Unusual and Disgusting Music. He met ] in 1974, and, with Chrisemer, they became a three-person act called Asparagus Valley Cultural Society, which started at the ] and subsequently played in San Francisco. In 1981, Jillette and Teller began performing exclusively together as Penn & Teller, an act that continues to this day. On April 5, 2013, Penn and Teller were honored with a star on the ] in the live performance category.<ref name="WalkofFame">{{cite web | url=http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/04/05/magicians-penn-teller-set-for-walk-of-fame-star/ | title=Magicians Penn & Teller Get Star on Walk of Fame | publisher=CBS Los Angeles | date=April 5, 2013 | access-date=April 7, 2013}}</ref> The following day, they were recognized by the ] with the Magicians of the Year award.<ref name=WalkofFame />


⚫ Teller rarely speaks while performing but regularly speaks in other contexts, such as interviews.<ref>{{cite web |title=Teller Explained Why He Remains Silent on Stage During an Interview in 2015 |publisher=Heavy, Inc. |date=May 18, 2020 |url =https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/05/magician-teller-talking-voice-speaking/ |access-date=March 17, 2020 }}</ref> Teller's trademark silence originated during his youth, when he earned a living performing magic at college ] parties.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/ENTERTAINMENT/70425059 |title='Silent' Teller to magically make 'Macbeth' a 'horror thriller' |access-date=May 21, 2007 |first=Lynn |last=Elber |date=April 25, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155800/http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070425%2FENTERTAINMENT%2F70425059 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He found that if he maintained silence throughout his act, spectators refrained from throwing beer and heckling him and paid more attention to his performance.<ref>{{cite web |title=For Penn & Teller's Magical Partnership, The Trick Is Telling The Truth |publisher=National Public Radio |date=August 1, 2015 |url =https://www.npr.org/2015/08/01/428169268/for-penn-tellers-magical-partnership-the-trick-is-telling-the-truth |access-date=August 1, 2015 }}</ref>
⚫ ====Voice====
⚫ Teller almost never speaks while performing. There are exceptions, such as when the audience is not aware of it; for example, he provided the voice of "Mofo the psychic gorilla" in their early Broadway show, with the help of a radio microphone cupped in his hand. Teller's trademark silence originated during his youth, when he earned a living performing magic at college ] parties.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/ENTERTAINMENT/70425059 |title='Silent' Teller to magically make 'Macbeth' a 'horror thriller' |access-date=May 21, 2007 |first=Lynn |last=Elber |date=April 25, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930155800/http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070425%2FENTERTAINMENT%2F70425059 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He found that if he maintained silence throughout his act, spectators refrained from throwing beer and heckling him and paid more attention to his performance.<ref>{{cite web |title=For Penn & Teller's Magical Partnership, The Trick Is Telling The Truth |publisher=National Public Radio |date=August 1, 2015 |url =https://www.npr.org/2015/08/01/428169268/for-penn-tellers-magical-partnership-the-trick-is-telling-the-truth |access-date=August 1, 2015 }}</ref>

Other exceptions to his silent act include instances where his face is covered or obscured, as when he spoke while covered with a plastic sheet in the series premiere of '']'',<ref>'']''; "Talking to the Dead"; Episode 1.1; January 23, 2003</ref> and when he was interviewed in shadow for the 2010 ] documentary, '']: Unlocking the Mystery,''<ref>{{citation|title= Houdini: Unlocking the Mystery| publisher= ] | date= October 31, 2005}}</ref> while Teller spoke at length in an NPR story on Houdini in 2010.<ref>{{cite web| website= NPR.org| url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130921757 |title=The Magic of Harry Houdini's Staying Power| first= Robert |last= Smith|date= October 30, 2010 |publisher= NPR|access-date=August 2, 2011}}</ref> He was also interviewed, with his mouth obscured in shadow, in the '']'' episode "How Does the Brain Work?" (He appears to say "Science!" in a ] voice in Penn and Teller's appearance in the "Light Optics" episode of the television show ''],'' but it was actually spoken by Penn, using a ventriloquist technique combined with the movement of Teller's mouth.) Teller also spoke in his 1987 guest appearance in "Like a Hurricane," a fourth-season episode on NBC's ''],''{{citation needed|date=February 2019}} and had speaking parts in the movies '']'' (in the final scene), '']'' and '']''. He voiced an animated version of himself in two episodes of '']'' ("]" and "]"); a series of cloned store clerks in "Zoey's Zoo"; an episode of '']''; and as Octum in the English version of the 1988 animated feature ''Light Years'' (original French title: ''Gandahar''). Teller speaks at length about magic performance and sleight-of-hand in the documentary '']''. He has been shown screaming and swearing in the "Anger Management" episode of ''Penn & Teller: Bullshit!''. He has a brief speaking part in '']'', where he advises Dagny Taggart (played by ]) to go out the side door of the Taggart Transcontinental offices.

Teller was interviewed on a BBC Radio 4 programme about magicians' assistants called "Box Jumpers", presented by '']'', broadcast in March 2004.<ref>https://magicweek.co.uk/backissues_0150-0199/0195.htm</ref>

Teller did break his silence in his portrayal of Mortimer in the ] of '']'', though almost all of his dialogue was edited out of the film's final version (his "Dying isn't easy" scene is included among deleted scenes on the DVD release). He appeared as a "cat" in the '']'' season 1 episode "The Cat's out of the Bag". He also appeared in an episode of '']'' giving "advice" to a fellow magician. He stood staring at the gentleman for several seconds before uttering "Practice once in a fuckin' while" while walking away. Teller spoke at length during an interview on the '']'' television program on January 27, 2014. During their performance in the series premiere of '']'', Penn is rambling on and Teller yells out his name, Teller can then be heard telling Penn to "shut up". Also, during their performance on the season 1 finale, he tells Penn that he is okay after breathing helium and while he is in a trash bag. In another episode, he says "Fuck, no!". Another instance of Teller speaking is in series 7 episode 4, where Penn and Teller teach the French Drop technique. Teller uses a megaphone to correct Penn's pronunciation of his french words.

Teller's voice can be heard on season 13 of '']'', "Episode 10: The Mayor of Stress Town", when speaking with contestant Penn Jillette over Penn's mobile device. He also spoke about '']'', the feature documentary he directed, on ]'s ''The Treatment''.<ref>{{cite interview| url= http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt131211teller_tims_vermeer| title= Teller: Tim's Vermeer |work= The Treatment |publisher=KCRW | date= December 11, 2013 | interviewer=Elvis Mitchell |last= Teller}}</ref>

Teller plays himself, with voice, in Showtime's '']'' season 2, episode 4.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sho.com/dice/season/2/episode/4# |title=DICE - Season 2 Episode 4|publisher=Showtime}}</ref> He also appeared in the ] finale of CBS's '']'' as Amy's father. Throughout the show, he is prevented from speaking by his wife, played by ]. Once Penny shuts her down, however, Teller tells her (albeit in a whisper) "Thank you." In the first and eighth episodes of ], he participates in dialogues normally.

Teller also guest stars as himself in an episode of '']'' in which he maintains his traditional silent act (and even performs magic tricks) throughout the episode, then surprises the other characters by speaking in the final scene.


===Writing=== ===Writing===
Teller collaborated with Jillette on three magic books, and is also the author of ''"When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours!": Joe Teller – A Portrait by His Kid'' (2000), a biography/memoir of his father. The book features his father's paintings and 100 unpublished cartoons which were strongly influenced by ]'s '']''. The book was favorably reviewed by '']''. Teller's father's "wryly observed scenes of Philadelphia street life" were created in 1939. Teller and his father's "memories began to pump and the stories flowed" after they opened boxes of old letters that Teller read out loud (learning for the first time about a period in his parents' lives that he knew nothing about, such as the fact that his father's name is really Israel Max Teller). Joe's Depression-era hobo adventures led to travels throughout the U.S., Canada and Alaska, and by 1933, he returned to Philadelphia for art study. After Joe and Irene met during evening art classes, they married, and Joe worked half-days as a ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' copy boy. When the ''Inquirer'' rejected his cartoons, he moved into advertising art just as World War II began. Employing excerpts from letters and postcards, Teller successfully re-creates the world of his parents in a relaxed writing style of light humor and easy (yet highly effective) transitions between the past and present.<ref name=pubweekly>"Forecasts", ''Publishers Weekly'', August 15, 2000.</ref> Teller collaborated with Jillette on three magic books, and is also the author of ''"When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours!": Joe Teller – A Portrait by His Kid'' (2000), a biography/memoir of his father. The book features his father's paintings and 100 unpublished cartoons which were strongly influenced by ]'s '']''. The book was favorably reviewed by '']''. Teller's father's "wryly observed scenes of Philadelphia street life" were created in 1939. Teller and his father's "memories began to pump and the stories flowed" after they opened boxes of old letters that Teller read out loud (learning for the first time about a period in his parents' lives that he knew nothing about, such as the fact that his father's name is really Israel Max Teller). Joe's Depression-era hobo adventures led to travels throughout the U.S., Canada and Alaska, and by 1933, he returned to Philadelphia for art study. After Joe and Irene met during evening art classes, they married, and Joe worked half-days as a ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' copy boy. When the ''Inquirer'' rejected his cartoons, he moved into advertising art just as World War II began.<ref name=pubweekly>"Forecasts", ''Publishers Weekly'', August 15, 2000.</ref>


Teller is a co-author of the paper "Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic: Turning Tricks into Research", published in ''Nature Reviews Neuroscience'' (November 2008).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Macknik, S.L. |title=Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic: Turning Tricks into Research |journal=Nat. Rev. Neurosci. |volume=9 |issue=11 |pages=871–9 |date=November 2008 |pmid=18949833 |doi= 10.1038/nrn2473|name-list-style=vanc|author2=King M |author3=Randi J |display-authors=3 |last4=Robbins |first4=Apollo |last5=Teller |last6=Thompson |first6=John |last7=Martinez-Conde |first7=Susana|s2cid=1826552 }}</ref> Teller is a co-author of the paper "Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic: Turning Tricks into Research", published in ''Nature Reviews Neuroscience'' (November 2008).<ref>{{cite journal |author=Macknik, S.L. |title=Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic: Turning Tricks into Research |journal=Nat. Rev. Neurosci. |volume=9 |issue=11 |pages=871–9 |date=November 2008 |pmid=18949833 |doi= 10.1038/nrn2473|name-list-style=vanc|author2=King M |author3=Randi J |display-authors=3 |last4=Robbins |first4=Apollo |last5=Teller |last6=Thompson |first6=John |last7=Martinez-Conde |first7=Susana|s2cid=1826552 }}</ref>


In 2010, Teller wrote '']'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.PlayDeadNYC.com |title=Play Dead |publisher=Playdeadnyc.com |access-date=August 2, 2011}}</ref> a "throwback to the spook shows of the 1930s and '40s" that ran September 12–24 in Las Vegas before opening ] in New York. The show stars sideshow performer and magician ].<ref>{{Cite news | title=Teller's Las Vegas-born Play Dead is headed to off-Broadway | date=September 16, 2010 | access-date=September 27, 2010 | url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/luxe-life/2010/sep/16/tellers-las-vegas-born-emplay-deadem-headed--broad/ | newspaper=] | author=Chareunsy, Don }}</ref> In 2010, Teller wrote '']'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.PlayDeadNYC.com |title=Play Dead |publisher=Playdeadnyc.com |access-date=August 2, 2011}}</ref> a "throwback to the spook shows of the 1930s and '40s" that ran September 12–24 in Las Vegas before opening ] in New York. The show starred sideshow performer and magician ].<ref>{{Cite news | title=Teller's Las Vegas-born Play Dead is headed to off-Broadway | date=September 16, 2010 | access-date=September 27, 2010 | url=http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/luxe-life/2010/sep/16/tellers-las-vegas-born-emplay-deadem-headed--broad/ | newspaper=] | author=Chareunsy, Don | archive-date=June 7, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607002955/http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/luxe-life/2010/sep/16/tellers-las-vegas-born-emplay-deadem-headed--broad/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>


===Directing=== ===Directing===
In 2008, Teller and ] co-directed a version of '']'' which incorporated stage magic techniques in the scenes with the ].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119974596269973169?mod=googlenews_wsj | work=The Wall Street Journal | first=Joanne | last=Kaufman | title=The Magician Not Only Speaks, But Chooses to Utter 'Macbeth'! |location= New York| date=January 8, 2008 |access-date= July 23, 2015}}</ref> In 2014, Teller and Posner co-directed a version of '']'', which again made use of stage magic; in an interview Teller stated that "] wrote one play that's about a magician, and it seemed like about time to realize that with all the capabilities of modern magic in the theater."<ref>{{cite news |title=The Silent Man Speaks: Teller Re-Imagines 'The Tempest' With Magic |url=http://artery.wbur.org/2014/05/14/tell-the-tempest-cambridge-art |first=Andrea |last=Shea |date=May 14, 2014 |work=WBUR.org |publisher=WBUR |access-date=June 10, 2014 |location=Boston}}</ref> In 2018, Teller and Posner co-conceived and directed a brand new production of '']'' at ] in ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatermania.com/chicago-theater/news/chicago-shakespeare-theater-2017-18-season_80709.html|title=Teller and Aaron Posner to Create New Macbeth for Chicago Shakespeare Theater|access-date=November 2, 2018}}</ref> In 2008, Teller and ] co-directed a version of '']'' which incorporated stage magic techniques in the scenes with the ].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119974596269973169?mod=googlenews_wsj | work=The Wall Street Journal | first=Joanne | last=Kaufman | title=The Magician Not Only Speaks, But Chooses to Utter 'Macbeth'! |location= New York| date=January 8, 2008 |access-date= July 23, 2015}}</ref> In 2014, Teller and Posner co-directed a version of '']'', which again made use of stage magic; in an interview Teller stated that "] wrote one play that's about a magician, and it seemed like about time to realize that with all the capabilities of modern magic in the theater."<ref>{{cite news |title=The Silent Man Speaks: Teller Re-Imagines 'The Tempest' With Magic |url=http://artery.wbur.org/2014/05/14/tell-the-tempest-cambridge-art |first=Andrea |last=Shea |date=May 14, 2014 |work=WBUR.org |publisher=WBUR |access-date=June 10, 2014 |location=Boston}}</ref> In 2018, Teller and Posner co-conceived and directed a brand new production of '']'' at ] in Chicago, Illinois.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatermania.com/chicago-theater/news/chicago-shakespeare-theater-2017-18-season_80709.html|title=Teller and Aaron Posner to Create New Macbeth for Chicago Shakespeare Theater|date=April 13, 2017 |access-date=November 2, 2018}}</ref> In 2022, the Round House Theater staged Teller and Posner's adaptation of '']'' and made a video recording of it temporarily available for purchase, to stream.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mdtheatreguide.com/2023/01/news-round-house-theatre-announces-virtual-streaming-of-the-tempest/|title=News: Round House Theatre Announces Virtual Streaming of 'The Tempest'|last=Desk|date=January 16, 2023}}</ref>


Teller directed a feature film documentary, '']'', which was released in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=107126|title=Sony Pictures Classics Unlocks Tim's Vermeer - ComingSoon.net|work=ComingSoon.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/news/penn-teller-tims-vermeer-johannes-vermeer-1200569213/ |work=Variety |title=Teller's 'Tim's Vermeer' Bought By Sony Classics |access-date=June 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/a-documentary-by-teller-explores-the-magic-of-vermeer/?_r=0 | work=The New York Times | first=Dave | last=Itzkoff | title=A Documentary by Teller Explores the Magic of Vermeer | date=July 29, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://realscreen.com/2013/07/29/sony-pictures-classics-picks-up-tims-vermeer/|title=Sony Pictures Classics picks up "Tim's Vermeer"|work=realscreen.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/telluride-film-review-tims-vermeer-1200596123/ |work=Variety |title=Telluride Film Review: 'Tim's Vermeer' |access-date=June 4, 2014}}</ref> He and Jillette served as executive producers, with distribution by ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/118|title=Triangulation 118|work=TWiT.tv}}</ref> Teller directed a feature film documentary, '']'', which was released in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=107126|title=Sony Pictures Classics Unlocks Tim's Vermeer|work=ComingSoon.net|date=July 29, 2013|access-date=September 5, 2013|archive-date=July 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715215230/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=107126|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/news/penn-teller-tims-vermeer-johannes-vermeer-1200569213/ |work=Variety |title=Teller's 'Tim's Vermeer' Bought By Sony Classics |access-date=June 4, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/29/a-documentary-by-teller-explores-the-magic-of-vermeer/?_r=0 | work=The New York Times | first=Dave | last=Itzkoff | title=A Documentary by Teller Explores the Magic of Vermeer | date=July 29, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://realscreen.com/2013/07/29/sony-pictures-classics-picks-up-tims-vermeer/|title=Sony Pictures Classics picks up "Tim's Vermeer"|work=realscreen.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/telluride-film-review-tims-vermeer-1200596123/ |work=Variety |title=Telluride Film Review: 'Tim's Vermeer' |access-date=June 4, 2014}}</ref> He and Jillette served as executive producers, with distribution by ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/118|title=Triangulation 118|work=TWiT.tv}}</ref>


==Books== ==Books==
* {{cite book | last1=Jillette |first1=Penn |author-link1=Penn Jillette |author2=Teller | title=Penn and Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends | location=New York | publisher=Villard | year=1989 | isbn=0-394-75351-8}} * {{cite book | last1=Jillette |first1=Penn |author-link1=Penn Jillette |author2=Teller | title=Penn and Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends | location=New York | publisher=Villard | year=1989 | isbn=0-394-75351-8|url= https://archive.org/details/penntellerscruel0000jill}}
* {{cite book | last1=Jillette | first1=Penn |author2=Teller | title=Penn and Teller's How to Play with Your Food | location=New York | publisher=Villard | year=1992 | isbn=0-679-74311-1 | url=https://archive.org/details/penntellershowto00penn }} * {{cite book | last1=Jillette | first1=Penn |author2=Teller | title=Penn and Teller's How to Play with Your Food | location=New York | publisher=Villard | year=1992 | isbn=0-679-74311-1 | url=https://archive.org/details/penntellershowto00penn }}
* {{cite book | last1=Jillette | first1=Penn |author2=Teller | title=Penn and Teller's How to Play in Traffic | location=New York | publisher=Berkley Trade | year=1997 | isbn=1-57297-293-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/penntellershowto00jill }} * {{cite book | last1=Jillette | first1=Penn |author2=Teller | title=Penn and Teller's How to Play in Traffic | location=New York | publisher=Berkley Trade | year=1997 | isbn=1-57297-293-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/penntellershowto00jill }}
* {{cite book | author1=Teller |last2=Teller |first2=Joe | title="When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours!": Joe Teller – A Portrait by His Kid | location=New York | publisher=] | year=2000 | isbn=0-922233-22-5}} * {{cite book | author1=Teller |last2=Teller |first2=Joe | title="When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours!": Joe Teller – A Portrait by His Kid | location=New York | publisher=] | year=2000 | isbn=0-922233-22-5}}
* {{cite book | author1=Teller |last2=Karr |first2=Todd |last3=Abbott |first3=David P. |author-link3=David Abbott (magician) | title=House of Mystery: The Magic Science of David P. Abbott | location=Marina del Rey, California | publisher=Miracle Factory | year=2005 |url=http://miraclefactory.net/zenstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=116 |access-date=April 4, 2013}} * {{cite book |author1=Teller |last2=Karr |first2=Todd |last3=Abbott |first3=David P. |author-link3=David Abbott (magician) |title=House of Mystery: The Magic Science of David P. Abbott |location=Marina del Rey, California |publisher=Miracle Factory |year=2005 |url=http://miraclefactory.net/zenstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=116 |access-date=April 4, 2013 |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195214/http://miraclefactory.net/zenstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=116 |url-status=dead }}


==Film and television== ==Film and television==
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| 1995;<br>1997 || '']'' || Geller || Season 1 episode 6: "Drew Meets Lawyers"<br>Season 2 episode 17: "See Drew Run"
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| 1997 ||'' ]'' || Skippy || Season 1 episode 1: "Pilot"<br>Season 1 episode 13: "Jenny's Non-Dream" | 1995;<br>1997 || '']'' || Geller || Season 1 episode 6: "]"<br>Season 2 episode 17: "]"
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| rowspan=2| 1998 ||'' ]'' || Mr. Boots || Season 1 episode 20: "The Cat's Out of the Bag" | 1997 ||'' ]'' || Skippy || Season 1 episode 1: "Pilot"<br>Season 1 episode 13: "Jenny's Non-Dream"
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| rowspan=2| 1998 ||'' ]'' || Mr. Boots || Season 1 episode 20: "The Cat's Out of the Bag"
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| ''] '' || Zooty || Season 5 episode 8: "]" | ''] '' || Zooty || Season 5 episode 8: "]"
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| 1999;<br>2011 || '']'' || rowspan="6" |Self || Season 11 episode 6: "]"<br>Season 22 episode 18: "]" | 1999;<br>2011 || '']'' || Self || Season 11 episode 6: "]"<br>Season 22 episode 18: "]"
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| 2018 || '']'' || ] || 3 episodes | 2018 || '']'' || ] || 3 episodes


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|2022|| ''Young Sheldon''|| Pus || 1 episode
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American magician (born 1948)

Teller
Teller in 2023
BornRaymond Joseph Teller
(1948-02-14) February 14, 1948 (age 76)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
EducationAmherst College (BA)
OccupationMagician
Years active1974–present
Websitepennandteller.com
Notes
Voice of Teller

Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller; February 14, 1948) is an American magician. He is half of the comedy magic duo Penn & Teller, along with Penn Jillette, and usually does not speak during performances. Teller is a H.L. Mencken Fellow at the Cato Institute.

Early life

Teller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Irene B. (née Derrickson) and Israel Max "Joseph" Teller (1913–2004). His father, who was of Russian-Jewish descent, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Philadelphia. His mother was from a Delaware farming family. They met as painters attending art school at Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial. His mother was Methodist, and Teller was raised as "a sort of half-assed Methodist". He graduated from Philadelphia's Central High School in 1965, and in 1969 graduated from Amherst College with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics. He became a high-school Latin teacher.

At some point, Teller legally changed his name to the mononym "Teller", his family surname. He had reportedly been using the mononym professionally since, at least, some time before the 1975 formation of the Asparagus Valley Cultural Society. By December 2000, he reported that his own parents were calling him Teller.

Teller poses for a photo for his dad hanging from a tree in Love Park

Teller taught Greek and Latin at Lawrence High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. In 2001, he was inducted into the Central High School Hall of Fame.

Health

In 2018–2019, Teller had three back surgeries over 18 months. In late September 2022, he underwent quadruple-bypass heart surgery.

Career

Performing

Main article: Penn & Teller
Penn & Teller in 2012

Teller began performing with his friend Weir Chrisemer as The Othmar Schoeck Memorial Society for the Preservation of Unusual and Disgusting Music. He met Penn Jillette in 1974, and, with Chrisemer, they became a three-person act called Asparagus Valley Cultural Society, which started at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival and subsequently played in San Francisco. In 1981, Jillette and Teller began performing exclusively together as Penn & Teller, an act that continues to this day. On April 5, 2013, Penn and Teller were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the live performance category. The following day, they were recognized by the Magic Castle with the Magicians of the Year award.

Teller rarely speaks while performing but regularly speaks in other contexts, such as interviews. Teller's trademark silence originated during his youth, when he earned a living performing magic at college fraternity parties. He found that if he maintained silence throughout his act, spectators refrained from throwing beer and heckling him and paid more attention to his performance.

Writing

Teller collaborated with Jillette on three magic books, and is also the author of "When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours!": Joe Teller – A Portrait by His Kid (2000), a biography/memoir of his father. The book features his father's paintings and 100 unpublished cartoons which were strongly influenced by George Lichty's Grin and Bear It. The book was favorably reviewed by Publishers Weekly. Teller's father's "wryly observed scenes of Philadelphia street life" were created in 1939. Teller and his father's "memories began to pump and the stories flowed" after they opened boxes of old letters that Teller read out loud (learning for the first time about a period in his parents' lives that he knew nothing about, such as the fact that his father's name is really Israel Max Teller). Joe's Depression-era hobo adventures led to travels throughout the U.S., Canada and Alaska, and by 1933, he returned to Philadelphia for art study. After Joe and Irene met during evening art classes, they married, and Joe worked half-days as a Philadelphia Inquirer copy boy. When the Inquirer rejected his cartoons, he moved into advertising art just as World War II began.

Teller is a co-author of the paper "Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic: Turning Tricks into Research", published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (November 2008).

In 2010, Teller wrote Play Dead, a "throwback to the spook shows of the 1930s and '40s" that ran September 12–24 in Las Vegas before opening Off Broadway in New York. The show starred sideshow performer and magician Todd Robbins.

Directing

In 2008, Teller and Aaron Posner co-directed a version of Macbeth which incorporated stage magic techniques in the scenes with the Three Witches. In 2014, Teller and Posner co-directed a version of The Tempest, which again made use of stage magic; in an interview Teller stated that "Shakespeare wrote one play that's about a magician, and it seemed like about time to realize that with all the capabilities of modern magic in the theater." In 2018, Teller and Posner co-conceived and directed a brand new production of Macbeth at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Illinois. In 2022, the Round House Theater staged Teller and Posner's adaptation of The Tempest and made a video recording of it temporarily available for purchase, to stream.

Teller directed a feature film documentary, Tim's Vermeer, which was released in 2014. He and Jillette served as executive producers, with distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.

Books

Film and television

Year Title Role Notes
1986 My Chauffeur Abdul
1987 Miami Vice Ralph Fisher Season 4 episode 8: "Like a Hurricane"
1987 Long Gone Hale Buchman Jr.
1989 Penn & Teller Get Killed Self
1995 The Fantasticks Mortimer
1995;
1997		 The Drew Carey Show Geller Season 1 episode 6: "Drew Meets Lawyers"
Season 2 episode 17: "See Drew Run"
1997 Sabrina the Teenage Witch Skippy Season 1 episode 1: "Pilot"
Season 1 episode 13: "Jenny's Non-Dream"
1998 Dharma & Greg Mr. Boots Season 1 episode 20: "The Cat's Out of the Bag"
Babylon 5 Zooty Season 5 episode 8: "Day of the Dead"
1999;
2011		 The Simpsons Self Season 11 episode 6: "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
Season 22 episode 18: "The Great Simpsina"
2000 Fantasia 2000
2003–2010 Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
2004 The West Wing Self Season 6 episode 8: "In the Room"
2011;
2015–present		 Penn & Teller: Fool Us
2012 Atlas Shrugged: Part II Laughlin
2016 Director's Cut Rudy Nelson
2018 The Big Bang Theory Larry Fowler 3 episodes
2021 History’s Greatest Mysteries- Season 2 Self Episode 2 “Houdini’s Lost Diaries”
2022 Young Sheldon Pus 1 episode
2023 Mrs. Davis Magic consultant

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