Gene Flaharty, Makeup Artist/Instructor, has been doing professional makeup for TV, Film, print, and theatre for over 38 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 characters for Haunted Houses for theme packs across the country. Worked on national 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”.