Author: Janet Flora
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Teaching Gotham Writers’ Workshop
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When I teach for Gotham Writers’ Workshop, often I use the same or a similar curriculum for a class. However, no two classes are the same because each student brings something different, and I learn almost as much as my students, as they learn from me. In the summer of…
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The Make-Up Chair
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A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.
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THE GOOD-BYE CEREMONY
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A daughter explains how she and her family cope with her mother’s suicide after the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Winner of the 2004 Willow Review Award for prose.
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IN LIEU OF FLOWERS
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A woman explains how she remembers and honors her parents’ lives and their deaths.
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Belongings
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Soon after a friend has passed away, a woman vacillates about keeping, and wearing some of the friend’s belongings.
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You’re Too Smart For That
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A woman in her 30s gives instructional advice about romantic relationships.
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Banging on Doors
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When the parents of a man in his 20s decide to sell their home and move to a retirement community, he is forced to confront his future and his past, and what leaving his small hometown might mean.
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Waiting for Lena
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An 82-year-old woman, still living with her twin sister examines their relationship and how it has affected her life.
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It’s not what you think
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A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.
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Painting The Pride Backstage at “The Lion King”
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If you imagine working as a makeup artist on “The Lion King” for its 26-year run—8 shows a week—with (thankfully) no closing in sight, might be a “punishing” schedule you’d be right. In fact, that’s the word head makeup artist Elizabeth Cohen used to describe her tenure on the show…
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Dean Of Make-Up: Richard Dean
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Leading ladies such as Julia Roberts have come to rely on Richard Dean to develop looks based on the psychology behind the character.
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Scott Andrew Profile
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The iconic Makeup Artist Scott Andrew has over 100 Allure covers to his credit.
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Behind The Mask
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Since Michael Crawford performed the title role in The Phantom of the Opera’s Broadway opening in January 1988, there have been 12 actors who have played the starring role. Although the actors differed with the performances, the same woman has been behind all the men’s masks: make-up artist Thelma Pollard.
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Wicked
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Joe Dulude II, make-up artist on the Tony-award winning musical “Wicked,” can safely say, “It’s not easy being green.”
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Hobnobbing At Megna Glass Studio
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Magnificent home accessories, doorknobs and cabinet pulls are made on the East End by master glass blower Martin Megna.
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Design At The Top Of The Stairs
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Interior designer, Penny Drue Baird, whose work is featured regularly in Architectural Digest splits a bedroom in half for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House.
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Setting The Stage
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At Saturday Night Live “You gotta make it fun,” Joe Rielly head carpenter on Saturday Night Live, said when asked how he approached each show after working there for twenty years. You might think working on a show in its 48th season, which premiered in 1975 and has made millions laugh would…
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And The Awards go to…
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Mia Neal Celebrity Hairstylist Mia Neal redefines the idea of celebrity hairstylist. She won the 2020 Oscar as head of the hair and wig department for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; and made history as one of two black women along with Jamika Wilson (personal hairstylist to Viola Davis) to win…
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She Made-up Talluah Bankhead Paul McCartney and Many In Between
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Cheers for Seventy-three Years It was 1949 when Florence Ricobbono Johnson was hired by NBC as a staff makeup-artist. She trained to be an actor and had recently completed a graduate degree in theater at The Pasadena Playhouse (University of Southern California) where she got the nickname Riccie. On her…
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What I learned about writing and life as a Makeup Artist for TV and Film
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When I did make up for television I always stood on the right side of the chair, it had to do with being right-handed, but sometimes I discovered there was no right side—there was no right side for difficult personalities, but I had to pretend I was okay with bad…
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First Draft of Novel is finished
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I know I have not blogged at all. It changes now. I have written a book. Of course, like every writer I hope to get it published. But I am enjoying the moment of completion. And like most first drafts, it needs revision. I’m halfway through the second draft, and…
