Q: Which character did you want to play?

A: I auditioned for a torture victim but they stuck me in the zombies.

Q: Do you remember your first scare?

A: Yeah I was standing alone in the dark with the strobe light, and you know I have a mirror, so I can see people coming. I turned and saw this horribly disgusting ugly bloody zombie and I screamed so loud and then realized it was me in the mirror, so that was my first scare.

Q: What is your least favorite part of the job?

A: You’re basically alone for five hours except when those few seconds every few minutes when you’re scaring people. The other group has hoedowns and dances and things to stay entertained and we zombies are basically all alone.

Q: How did you get into character?

A: Well I wanted to watch a lot of zombie movies but I get scarred really easily so I just read about this actual culture that believes in zombies because of this potion that makes you sleep so deeply that people think you have died and then you wake up and they would think you had come back to life as a zombie. Then I kind of just worked on my walk. At first I just did this pinballing down the hallway but that bruised up my hips so I developed this floor crawling character.

Q: How do you get out of character?

A: It takes about an hour to get all the prosthetics off. First they use alcohol and some cold cream then you have to wash your face and they do this a bunch of times, like 5 times, to get it off but your face still has a film of stuff on it, like I could scrape my fingernails on my face and get a chunk of glue off. My hair stays all tangled and my face cracks and itches and it stays on for days afterwards which is weird because I work at a preschool by day and the haunted house by night.