PENN JILLETTE is a cultural phenomenon as a solo personality and as half of the world-famous Emmy Award-winning magic duo and Las Vegas headliners Penn & Teller. Together since 1975, Penn & Teller’s live show spent years on Broadway and is now the longest-running headliner show in Las Vegas where it plays nightly at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. The pair has been awarded Las Vegas Magicians of the Year an amazing eight times.

Jillette’s solo exposure is enormous: from Howard Stern to Wendy Williams, from Oprah to Colbert, to the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He has appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice, Dancing with the Stars, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live, and hosted the NBC game show Identity. As part of Penn & Teller he has appeared on hundreds of shows, from The Simpsons and Friends to Billions and Scorpion. He recently co-wrote an episode of the Emmy-winning Netflix series Black Mirror.

He co-hosted the controversial Showtime series Penn & Teller: Bullshit! which was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards, won him a Writers Guild award and was the longest-running show in the history of the network. He currently co-hosts the CW Network hit competition series Penn & Teller: Fool Us! which was nominated for a 2017 Critics’ Choice award. The series returns for a sixth season in June of 2019.

Penn’s latest book, the New York Times Best Seller, “Presto!” takes an insightful and very humorous look at his recent weight loss journey. His previous book, “God No! Signs You Might Be An Atheist and Other Magic Tales,” spent six weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. His weekly podcast, Penn’s Sunday School, was the No. 1 downloaded podcast on iTunes during its debut week and was named by iTunes as Best New Comedy Podcast.

On the big screen, Penn produced the critically lauded 2005 documentary The Aristocrats, which features over 100 of the biggest names in comedy telling their versions of the dirtiest joke in history. He produced Tim’s Vermeer, which follows the journey of an eccentric inventor determined to solve one of the art world’s oldest mysteries. The Sony Pictures Classic release was nominated for a BAFTA and was shortlisted for the 2014 Oscars. He has recently completed the documentary The Gambler’s Ballad profiling magic legend Johnny Thompson. It premiered on Showtime in early 2018.

As a philanthropist, his efforts have resulted in raising millions of dollars for Las Vegas-based charities AFAN (Aid for AIDS NV) and Opportunity Village. The annual “Penn & Teller’s 13 Bloody Days of Xmas” continues to be the most successful blood drive in the Las Vegas Valley, resulting in an average of 4000 pints donated every holiday season.

Penn & Teller have their very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and triumphantly returned to Broadway recently with Penn & Teller On Broadway, which was the highest-grossing non-musical for the entirety of its run.

At only 25-years-old, SANTIAGO MICHEL exemplifies the eclectic approach and spirit of UNLV’s International Gaming Institute. Born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico, Michel has performed in more than 12 countries around the world and studied performing arts and theater in Russia. The UNLV College of Hospitality alum performs his one-of-a-kind mentalist show, “Ilusion Mental” — the first and only Spanish-speaking residency show in Las Vegas history — four nights per week at the Paris Hotel & Casino. The idea behind the show came to fruition during a class, Sociology of Gambling, which he took in the spring of his undergraduate studies with Dr. Bo Bernhard. 3 years, an undergraduate degree, and over 275 shows performed later, Michel will provide entertainment during the conference's Eadington Dinner on Wednesday, May 29.

Interdisciplinary artist and director KATE ST-PIERRE has recorded for multiple film scores and soundtracks, most recently the theme for the epic film Alpha, composed by Joseph DeBeasi.

She was the original singer for Le Reve at Wynn Las Vegas and has sung with Cirque du Soleil as the lead soloist in Ka at MGM Grand Las Vegas. Kate worked with Ann Hamilton— visual artist internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multi-media installations—and performed in her Tower at Oliver Ranch with composer Shahrokh Yadegari.. St-Pierre’s voice and composition were nominated for a 2004 Drama Desk Award for Music.

St-Pierre is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab and the artistic director of the award-winning The LAB LV—an experimental, interdisciplinary theatre company in Las Vegas. Kate loves to create through immersive, physical storytelling, often in found or pop-up spaces.

Recent directing works include: Anne Carson's Antigonick, Schoenberg’s Erwartung, Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz, The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe and Iphigenia 2k16. In the last two years, Kate and her productions have been nominated for more than seven Valley Awards and won three. Branching out to film and video production, Kate directed the recent music video of bluegrass band Tin Toy Cars.

Currently, St-Pierre is an Artist in Residence with the Nevada Arts Council. A specialist in arts integration in education, she has worked with educators of pre-kindergarten through grade 12 for more than ten years. Through The LAB LV, St-Pierre teaches and brings world renowned artists to Las Vegas to offer unique, affordable, challenging opportunities for professional and emerging artists of all backgrounds including dance, circus, theatre, music, video, and design.