Equipment and mobile stage rental in New Orleans, delivered and crewed by us.
Deep South Productions supplies equipment and mobile stage rental in New Orleans from our own inventory. We own two hydraulic mobile stages. We own the audio, lighting, LED video, decking and barricade that go on them. We move all of it on our own trucks and staff it with our own crew.
New Orleans is one of the markets we work regularly, and we have a location here alongside our Sulphur home base. You deal with one company from the site survey to the last truck off the lot.
Mobile stage rental in New Orleans, LA
A mobile stage is a stage built into a trailer. It arrives, the outriggers go down, the roof lifts on hydraulics, and a few hours later you have a covered deck with a rated roof and stairs. No scaffold build. No crane.
For a street closure, a fairground, a park or a parking lot that becomes a venue for a weekend, it is usually the fastest way to get a real stage on the ground. The truck arrives in the morning. Audio and lighting hang before lunch. Load-out reverses it.
We carry two stages:
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Apex 3224
32 feet wide, 24 deep. It handles a full band, a speaking program or a DJ setup, with room for production on the wings. It fits municipal concerts, fairs, festival side stages and corporate outdoor events.
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Stageline SL320 (2022)
The larger of the two and headliner-capable. Use it when an act sends a stage plot with touring-scale backline, monitor world and a full lighting package overhead.
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A larger deck through a partner
When a main stage needs more roof than we carry, we coordinate a bigger deck through a vetted partner. We still run the build.
Details on both are on our mobile stage rental and setup page.
Production equipment rental for New Orleans events
We rent to the trade: production companies, venues, promoters, event agencies and in-house technical directors who need gear on a date they've already sold. Everything we rent is our own inventory, maintained in our own shop by the people who prep it for our shows.
That makes New Orleans production equipment rental a package conversation, not a catalog. You give us the show, the room or the site, the load-in window and the date. We build the package.
It goes out one of two ways:
- Dry-hire. Your crew takes the gear from our dock, or we truck it to you.
- Supported. A tech travels with the gear and makes sure it does what you promised it would do.
What's on the shelf:
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d&b audiotechnik SL-series line array, DiGiCo consoles, microphone and cable packages built to a real input list
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Moving heads, wash fixtures, control and data, fog and haze, on Tyler GT box truss
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Fine-pitch LED panels in the 3.9mm to 5.9mm range, with processing and spares
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Stage decks, risers, skirting, stairs and rails
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Backline built to meet a rider as written
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Front-of-stage Mojo-style barricade and bike-rack barricade
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Generators, distribution and cable, plus Portacool units and misting fans for Gulf South summers
Full lists live on production equipment rental. Most rentals ride with something else: a stage, a trucking run, a crew call or a power package. A single console for a one-off is normal too.
We don't run a walk-in counter. Once gear leaves without anyone knowing where it's going, we can't promise it will work.
Stage rental in New Orleans, LA: what goes around the deck
A stage rental rarely stops at the stage. We supply the pieces that make it a working site:
- Decking, risers, ramps and ADA access, with accessibility designed in at the plan stage
- Skirting, masking, pipe and drape, and cable ramp
- Front-of-stage barricade, mix position platforms and delay tower platforms
- Generators and distribution for sites without house power, with generators, power and event cooling on the same truck plan
- Portable restrooms, hand-washing stations and shower trailers from our own inventory
See stage rental, decking and crowd control barricade for the full scope. We work from a site plan. Tell us the load-in path, the ground conditions, the expected crowd and the show times. We come back with a build that fits.
Where we deliver around New Orleans
We serve New Orleans and the surrounding Southeast Louisiana area, including the Westbank. Gear ships from our shop and warehouse in Sulphur, Louisiana, on our own trucks, driven by our own drivers. The logistics and trucking team routes it.
Our New Orleans location is the local anchor. Sulphur is where the fleet lives and where the inventory is prepped and tested before it ships.
We build festival main stages and we build hotel ballroom AV.
The same applies to rentals. A single stage for a neighborhood festival and a multi-stage weekend get the same prep and the same crew standard. The scale changes; the standard doesn't.
Outside the city, we work across the Gulf South, nationally and into Canada with the same fleet.
Credits in and around New Orleans
The names below come from our approved credits. They are a sample, not the full list.
Venues
- New Orleans Superdome
- Raising Cane's River Center
Festivals and events
- Bayou Classic
- Gretna Fest
- Gretna Festin' Concert Series 2026
- Westbank Heritage Festival
- Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival
- The National Fried Chicken Festival
Some of our work is full production where we designed, supplied, crewed and ran the show. Some is equipment or crew support for another production company. The full roster is on Clients & Credits. For festival-scale work, see festivals and tours production. For public and civic events, see municipal event production.
Engineering, wind and weather on a Louisiana site
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An outdoor stage is a structure, and we treat it like one. Each stage carries manufacturer engineering documentation covering roof load capacity, wind speed ratings, and ballast and staking requirements. We provide that paperwork for permitting and for your insurer. We walk your safety plan with you before load-in.
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Every outdoor show runs on a written weather plan. It names who monitors conditions, the threshold at which the show is held, who makes the call, and how the audience is moved. It is the least glamorous part of the job and the one that matters most.
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We work inside the manufacturer's rated roof capacities. We self-perform the straightforward hangs these stages are built for. Larger or higher-risk structural rigging goes to qualified specialists we manage inside the same plan. Nobody guesses at a weight.
How a New Orleans rental runs
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You send the basics. Date, city, venue, headcount, and what you need covered.
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A producer answers. You get a real producer, not a form response, and a written scope and a number rather than a guess.
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We survey the site. Power, ground conditions, load-in path and overhead clearance go into the scope, not into a surprise on setup day.
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We prep and test. Gear is checked in our shop before it ships.
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Our crew loads in. The people who set the stage know its hydraulics, its rigging points and its weather procedure, and they stay with it.
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We load out. Same crew, reverse order.
Redundancy goes into the plan. When something fails at 4pm on show day, we have a spare in the warehouse and the crew to swap it.
We don't promise nothing will break. We promise to be ready when it does.
Frequently asked questions
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Mobile stages travel with our crew. Our people know the hydraulics, the rigging points and the weather procedure, and they stay with the stage from set to strike. If you only need gear, such as decking, audio or lighting, we do dry-hire and supported packages for production companies, venues and promoters.
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The Apex 3224 fits most municipal concerts, fairs, side stages and corporate outdoor events. The Stageline SL320 is for acts whose stage plot won't fit on anything smaller. Send the rider or stage plot and we'll tell you which one works. If neither does, we coordinate a larger deck.
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Yes. Each stage carries manufacturer engineering documentation for roof load, wind speed ratings, and ballast and staking. We supply it for permitting and for your insurer. Your authority having jurisdiction decides what it needs, so tell us who that is early.
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It depends on scope, duration, trucking distance and crew. Give us the date, site, headcount and what you need. You'll get a written scope and a number rather than a guess.
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No. Equipment rental is business-to-business and quoted by the job. We want to know where the gear is going and what it's doing, because that's how we keep it reliable. The warehouse can be visited by appointment.
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As early as you can, especially in festival season and for any date that needs a mobile stage. A large part of this business is solving problems on short notice, though, so call regardless of your date.
Send us the date and the site
Tell us the date, the New Orleans venue or site, how many people you expect, and what you need on the ground. A date and a city is enough to start. We reply within one business day, usually sooner.
Call 337.626.2235, weekdays 8:00am to 5:00pm.
Someone on our team is reachable 24/7 when you're on site and something changes. If your event is inside two weeks, call. The phone is faster than the form.
Home base: 1441 Swisco Road, Sulphur, LA 70665