WHO WE ARE

Mary Beth Elam

Mary Beth Elam founded Old Soul Production Services in 2019 after spending thirteen years working for various promoters and producers in the entertainment and music festival industry. 

Mary Beth began her career at AC Entertainment while in college at the University of Tennessee.  While at AC, Mary Beth worked as an assistant to the Booking department, learning the ins and outs of concert production and administraation.  She also oversaw the site development, layout and build for AC’s Hot Summer Nights outdoor concert series in Worlds Fair Park, a project that fueled her love for creating outdoor venues and events from scratch.

After leaving AC in 2009, Mary Beth embarked on a freelance path where she lent her knowledge and skills to music festivals and tours across the country.  She worked as many festivals as she could, taking on different roles spanning from Artist Relations to Catering Management and Database Systems Administrator, rounding our her experience and providing her with an expansive knowledge of the ins and outs of festival operations.

In 2012, she joined forces with Jim Tobin to help turn his sole proprietorship into a corporation and take his business to the next level.  For the next 7 years she would help to design, build, and manage festival sites for some of the largest festivals in the country.  From New York City to San Francisco, Okeechobee, FL to Simcoe, ON, she led the team and helped to build some of the most beautiful and unique event sites the industry has seen.  She also ran the business side of things at JTP, overseeing everything from bookkeeping and tax preparation, contracts and legal review, to human resources, skills that came in handy when branching out on her own.

In 2019, Mary Beth left JTP and founded Old Soul Production Services.  She spent her inaugural year utilizing the vast skillset she’s acquired over the years to help produce events in both the music festival and fan convention industries.  Her roles on projects vary from top-level Producer to Consultant.  She’s got the skillset to take on whatever your project needs, big or small!