Mat Franco Uri

16 on july 10 2017 the linq officially renamed the theater the mat franco theater and the city of las vegas presented franco with a key to the las vegas strip and declared july 10 mat franco day.
Mat franco uri. Franco who started doing magic when he was 4 and majored in marketing at uri has said it was uri that gave him the tools to become a businessman whether it was marketing classes or working as a freshman orientation leader. In february 2017 mat franco returned to his alma mater university of rhode island for a show celebrating the university s 125th anniversary. Come celebrate uri s 125th anniversary with uri s very own mat franco. Franco the winner of nbc s america s got talent in 2014 grew up in johnston and graduated from uri in 2010 with a degree in marketing and communication.
Mat franco is now headlining his own show magic reinvented nightly at the linq hotel casino in las vegas. Mat franco 10 when mat franco graduated from uri with a marketing degree in 2010 his big idea was to use his new business skills to promote and advance his career as a magician. The first magician ever to win nbc s america s got talent. You could say he s done that.
A johnston rhode island native and 2010 graduate of the university of rhode island mat is the first and only magician ever to win nbc s america s got talent.