John Dods，Born in December 1948, in Plainfield, New Jersey, John Dods has been described by CNN as "one of the world`s foremost masters of disguise." Dods has created makeups ranging from the AIDS victims of Longtime Companion (1989), to the aliens, vampires, and zombies of the TV-series Monsters (1988), and to the Beast in Broadway`s "Beauty and the Beast".