The Team
Stephen P. Wood. MS, ACNP-BC
Co-Founder
Stephen P. Wood is a nurse practitioner with over 30 years of clinical experience in emergency medicine and critical care, Stephen is currently the director of advanced practice providers in the medical ICU at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston and associate clinical professor and program director of the acute care nurse practitioner program at Northeastern University. He is a clinical instructor for the Tufts School of medicine and an affiliate with the FDNY EMS fellowship. Stephen completed a three-year fellowship in bioethics at Harvard Medical School and is currently a visiting fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School. Stephen's work runs the gamut of opioids, human trafficking, moral distress, workplace wellness and using analogy as a tool for exploration.
As an amateur magician, Stephen started performing for family and friends at the age of six. He joined the society of young magicians and eventually served as the Vice President of SYM. He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians as well as the Society of American Magicians. He has an interest in performing for people with dementia and memory deficits and most of his performing are for these audiences.
His interests are in exploring magic as a platform for understanding complex issues tat include cognitive bias and expectation violation. As an educator he has an interest in the hidden curriculum and how this is analogous to things hidden from us in magic.
Stephen's Blog with The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
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Jeanette Andrews
Co-Founder
Jeanette Andrews is a NYC-based magician, artist and speaker.
Andrews’ work focuses on the development of interactive magic and sensory illusions via performance, sculpture, installation and audio. Over 28 years of specialized study and technical training in parlor and sleight of hand magic has now afforded her a distinct perspective on crafting experiences with nuanced psychological underpinnings, direction of attention and inattention, the creation of surreal visuals and designing/building objects that function completely differently than they appear. Her research-based process centers around phenomenological philosophy, contemporary cognitive science, and physics. Her work is rooted in highlighting astonishing aspects of everyday life via moments of the seemingly impossible to create a lived phenomenology. Themes of pieces have included invisibility, impossible objects, the relationship between scent and magic, unseen communication, and how illusions can construct reality. Andrews works closely with museums and galleries to recontextualize magic within the cultural arts and explore this craft as a performance art medium. She has presented numerous commissioned works with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, including her 2020 work “Invisible Museums of the Unseen,” which was later commissioned as a site-specific work for the Quebec City Biennial. Further site-specific works for numerous museums and galleries include the Elmhurst Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art and International Museum of Surgical Science. Andrews is also an acclaimed speaker, presenting with the Cooper Hewitt, Chicago Ideas, Fortune 500 companies, and universities and conferences across the country. She has been an artist in residence for High Concept Labs in Chicago, The Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles and CultureLAB LIC in New York City.
She is an Alumnus Affiliate of metaLab (at) Harvard. Illusion is Andrews’ life’s work and her performances have been praised by the Chicago Tribune, PBS, and the New York Times.
Jeanette Andrews' Website
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