STACY PAQUIN GREENAMYER and husband Jason stand in front of a poster of Penn & Teller. The couple will appear on Friday’s episode of “Penn & Teller: Fool Us.” She is the daughter of Iron Mountain residents Ray and Patti Paquin and was born in Escanaba.

By MARGUERITE

LANTHIER

Staff Writer

IRON MOUNTAIN — Iron Mountain residents Ray and Patti Paquin are big supporters of magic — especially since they have a magician in the family.

Their daughter, Stacy Paquin Greenamyer, and her husband, Jason, have been invited to appear Friday on “Penn & Teller: Fool Us,” airing at 8 p.m. on CW Network. “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” is a magic competition show in which magicians perform tricks in front of American magician-comedian duo Penn & Teller.

Stacy said it was a huge goal to appear on the show and they auditioned three other times. “This year was our year. We really set out a goal to give it our all and reworked our routine for months on end.” After they sent their audition tape, they received the call to appear on the show.

The segment they will be doing is based on how they met, she explained. After she met her husband at a bar in Akron, Ohio, she started attending his performances and then assisting on his shows. “He encouraged me to start learning my own magic and before I knew it I was doing segments of the show,” she said.

They have been performing together under the stage name The Alans for seven years. Stacy said the name was used by her husband as his stage name because the name Greenamyer doesn’t really roll off the tongue.

The Alans been resident magicians at The Metropolitan at the 9 hotel in downtown Cleveland for four years and perform a lot of corporate magic, nationally at conferences, sales meetings, resorts and casinos. They also have performed at the Island Resort for private events and VIP guests.

Jason started learning magic at about age 13 after he saw a Venice Beach street performer do a magic trick. He is self taught, mostly from magic books and also learned from mentors. He began doing paid performances in college and it’s been his only true profession since, she said.

Stacy said she always loved magic and grew up watching David Blaine. “But never in my wildest dream thought it would be my profession,” she said. A year into their marriage, she left her job as a full-time mental health therapist to go on the road. She has a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy.

Their show blends their unique abilities. Jason is a sleight-of-hand artist and presents beautiful stage magic, she said. “I, on the other hand, do a lot of mentalism in our show. Mentalism is what I consider ‘mind magic.’ A lot of my effects are deeply rooted in psychological principles and the idea of suggestion and influence.”

“We are equal partners in our show and even though more and more women are getting into magic it is still a male-dominated profession,” she said.

Stacy was born in 1984 in Escanaba. Her father, Ray, is a 1975 graduate of North Central High School and her mother a 1974 graduate of Bark River-Harris High School. They returned to the U.P. after they retired and reside in Iron Mountain.

Stacy said her parents are very supportive of everything they do and joked that as proud Yoopers they like to tie everything to the U.P.

Marguerite Lanthier can be reached at 906-774-3500, ext. 242, or mlanthier@ironmountaindailynews.com.