Misty Lee is an American professional magician. She has also worked as an improv

Improvisation

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...

 comedian and a voice actress for several animated cartoons.

Before becoming a magician Lee trained in dentistry. Her first venture into magic came when a former high school friend called her and asked if she would like to earn some money as an assistant in his magic act. She was later mentored by some of the leading names in professional magic, including Detroit-based magician Scorpio and illusionist Jonathan Pendragon

The Pendragons

Jonathan and Charlotte Pendragon were an award-winning husband-and-wife team of American illusionists who called their work "physical grand illusion"...

. In 2010, Lee became a staff Seance Medium at Hollywood's Magic Castle. She is the first female magician in history to hold this position.

Her onstage performances blend theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

, song

Song

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, and sleight of hand

Sleight of hand

Sleight of hand, also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain, is the set of techniques used by a magician to manipulate objects such as cards and coins secretly....

. She has appeared (as herself) in several comic books, and is a co-creator (and also the voice) of Dinicartoons character Little Rashy. Lee is married to animation producer and comic book author Paul Dini

Paul Dini

Paul Dini is an American writer and producer who works in the television and comic book industries. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics animated series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated...

. Many people, including Dini, have remarked that Lee bears a strong resemblance to DC Comics

DC Comics

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 heroine Zatanna

Zatanna

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, who is also a magician and one of her husband's favourite comic book characters.

She is fluent in American Sign Language

American Sign Language

American Sign Language, or ASL, for a time also called Ameslan, is the dominant sign language of Deaf Americans, including deaf communities in the United States, in the English-speaking parts of Canada, and in some regions of Mexico...

 and has worked as a theatrical sign interpreter for Michigan State University. She and her husband currently live in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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.

Lee studied and performed both sketch and musical improv comedy at The Second City

The Second City

The Second City is a improvisational comedy enterprise which originated in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood.The Second City Theatre opened on December 16, 1959 and has since expanded its presence to several other cities, including Toronto and Los Angeles...

 in Los Angeles.

Further reading

• Interview with Misty Lee, Wizard
  Wizard (magazine)
  Wizard or Wizard: The Magazine of Comics, Entertainment and Pop Culture was a magazine about comic books, published monthly in the United States by Wizard Entertainment from July 1991 to January 2011...
  
  , 1998
• Article on Paul Dini's "Madame Mirage" comic, Wizard
  Wizard (magazine)
  Wizard or Wizard: The Magazine of Comics, Entertainment and Pop Culture was a magazine about comic books, published monthly in the United States by Wizard Entertainment from July 1991 to January 2011...
  
  , No. 187, April 2007

External links

• "Official Misty Lee Website"
• "Official Misty Lee Voiceover site"
• "The Radio Rashy Podcast Site, featuring Paul Dini and Misty Lee"
• "The Adventures of Little Rashy" by Paul Dini and Misty Lee
• Monkey Talk with Paul Dini and Little Rashy