AP Podcast – Episode 8: A conversation with Amy Hollaman

// 10.24.17

Guest Experience & Hospitality // Women of Influence

Amy Hollaman is the Creative director and GM of Terror Behind the Walls and Associate Director of Events and Operations at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philedelphia, PA.

Our conversation takes some really interesting twists and turns as we explore what its like to run a Halloween haunt event in a creepy old jail. Josh, admittedly, was a little scared.

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