Presenter Profile

Gene Flaharty

Guest Artist

GeneFlaharty, Makeup Artist/Instructor, has been doing professional makeup for TV, Film, print, and theatre for over 40 years. He enjoys teaching at a local college and doing makeup on celebrities like Martin Short, Dee Wallace Stone and David Ogden Stiers. He has designed over 200 different theater productions. He enjoys makeup education as he does lecture/demonstrations across the country in his full time position as Education, Theatrical Retail Specialist/Makeup Artist for Mehron Inc in New York. He has designed haunted houses characters for theme parks across the country. Worked on nation and regional tours of Cats, Addams Family, Spamalot, Kinky Boots, Shrek. He has been published with articles “Stretching Your Makeup”, “How Safe is Your Makeup”< "How to Start Your First Makeup Kit".

Gene's Workshops

Aging Made Easy

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Aging Made Easy
The hardest makeup to do is Old Age. Learning to blend shadows and highlights to create a three-dimensional wrinkle. This demonstration will cover the different stages of aging and show how to accomplish the look using new techniques, on an actor of any age, on any stage. The workshop is minutes long, but you could walk out fifty years older! For students and teachers, all levels.

Special Effects Makeup for the Stage

Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced / , , , Tech, , / Tech

Special Effects Makeup for the Stage
Come discover the newest makeup products to give you the best special effects on stage. We’ll look at your productions and characters. For students and teacher: all levels. Blood products, latex, flesh gel, collodion, and more. The instructor will demonstrate on audience members and share his experience working with these products in shows and answer questions about