His primary performing background comes from years as a radio personality where he was known, depending upon station formats and station management's whims, as Steve Alexander, Steve Winchester, and Stogie Allen. He still considers radio to be the most magical medium and will gladly grant any request to rant about how the magic is being almost universally ignored or misused.

His introduction to conjuring occurred with a number of self-working Adams and Royal tricks acquired while he was still in his single digits. From there, he progressed in his pre-teens through untold numbers of simple pick-a-card/find-a-card tricks, virtually all of which he has mercifully forgotten.

Somehow, magic got left behind when Glaser transformed into a photography fanatic in his teens, a phase which continued well into college. Eventually, he discovered that writing was a whole lot less expensive and that a page out of the typewriter didn't take nearly as many chemicals to develop. His writing and love of radio gained him a writing/performing position on a public affairs comedy show for a Hollywood radio station while working on his soon-to-be-abandoned Masters Degree in Religious Studies/Social Ethics. That led to his broadcasting career, which in turn took him into a variety of communications/writing/editing positions before he went solo in 1991.

He fell back into conjuring almost by accident in 1998 at age 45. His local magic dealer was glad to see that Steve rediscovered magic with only slightly less enthusiasm, and significantly more ready cash, than exhibited many years earlier upon his discovery of girls.

After many months of trying every type of magic that could be carried in his pockets, Glaser fell under the influence of Eugene Burger. Further explorations led him to the likes of Robert Neale, Tony Andruzzi, Brother Shadow, Ed Solomon and the newly late but ever great Gene Poinc, among others.

At the moment (2002), Steve remains a hobbyist , although he uses magic in presentations on communications and other professional - related topics. While he's often specialized in humorous writing and advertising, he generally tries to take his magic in non-comedic directions. His challenge has become not to merely do tricks that fool or amuse but to share effects which mean something -- without becoming pretentious or boring. He is after presentations that truly look and feel like Magic, to whatever extent his sleight-challenged fingers allow. The future is bright and who knows where his new found knowledge will lead him.