Who's behind the curtain
The Baltimore Experience is a home for creative ways to explore Baltimore City, and a showcase for the people who make them. Some of it you can do tonight with a phone and comfortable shoes. Some of it we build to order.
The creator
Vince Wilson
Vince Wilson is a Baltimore magician, mentalist, author and entertainment producer, and he has been working in magic and the paranormal for 28 years. He performs bizarre magic, mentalism, séances, paranormal storytelling and sideshow, and has taken them to Europe, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Orlando and Chicago.
In 2019 he opened Poe's Magic Theatre in the Lord Baltimore Hotel, to bring magic back downtown and give the city a place of wonder. He runs Poe's Magic Club, hosts the annual Poe's Magic Conference, produced the original Poe Grave Ghost Tours and the Lord Baltimore Hotel Ghost Tours, and served on the board of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum. He also leads SpellCast Theatre, which designs immersive evenings, guest apps and GPS story walks.
He writes fiction and nonfiction for The History Press, and Baltimore is his hometown. The city has been through a lot, unfairly more often than not. This is his way of showing it off properly.
Credits, briefly
- Television: CNN, PBS, Discovery, National Geographic, Travel Channel
- Lectures at The Magic Circle in London and the Chicago Magic Lounge
- 2026 IBM Award of Merit
- Cover feature, The Linking Ring
- Featured performer with the Society of American Magicians
- Author with The History Press
- Founder and director, Poe's Magic Theatre at the Lord Baltimore Hotel
- Founder, SpellCast Theatre
The collaborators
Nobody builds a haunted evening alone (it's bad luck, and the props are heavy). These are some of the performers and makers who work with Vince through SpellCast Theatre and Poe's Magic Theatre.
Psychic entertainer, actor and co-producer of Poe's Magic Theatre, known for intimate supernatural storytelling (and for reading the room better than the room reads itself).
Emmy-winning designer and founder of Séance Media, with more than twenty years in experience and narrative design.
Actor, producer, director and dance instructor with over twenty-five years in dance, choreography and theatrical storytelling.
Richmond-based magician and MC creating playful magic, engaging characters and small moments of wonder.
Meet the whole company at SpellCast Theatre.
How a project usually goes
We start with a real building, street or neighborhood, and dig until we find the story that never quite left it.
A walk, a séance, a show, an app, or some unholy combination. We pick what suits your guests and your budget.
We write it, build it, cast it and run it, or hand you something your own staff can run long after we've gone.