New Orleans event production, built to execute.
Deep South Productions is an event production company in New Orleans, LA. If you book us, one company answers for the show from the site survey to the last truck off the lot. We own the audio, lighting, LED video, staging and mobile stage inventory. We run the trucks. We staff the crews.
Sulphur, Louisiana is home base, and we keep a New Orleans location for southeast Louisiana work: festivals, venues and hospitality.
An event production company in New Orleans that owns the gear
Most event problems are handoff problems. The AV vendor points at the staging vendor. The staging vendor points at the venue. You're left holding it in front of the room.
We remove the handoffs. We design the technical scope and supply the equipment from our own inventory. We crew it with our own people and move it on our own trucks. Then we run it on show day. One point of contact, one bill.
That covers New Orleans live event production at both ends of the scale. We build festival main stages and we build hotel ballroom AV. The scale changes; the standard doesn't.
New Orleans festival and concert production
Southeast Louisiana runs on outdoor events. Festival fields, riverside lots, fairgrounds, stadium plazas. Each one needs a different plan.
For festival and concert work we bring:
- Line array and console packages sized to the field, with delay positions for deep or wide audiences
- Moving lights, truss and ground support
- LED walls and IMAG
- Decking, barricade and crowd control
- Generators and distribution for sites without house power
We design audio against the permit. Noise ordinances, curfews and measured SPL limits at defined points shape the system before it leaves the shop. Tell us the permitted number early and we'll build to hold it, not turn it down at nine o'clock and hope.
Multi-artist days run on a shared-console workflow. Visiting engineers get a documented patch and a surface they already know. Changeovers stay short because the riders and stage plots arrive before show day.
Our full festival production scope covers multi-stage, multi-day builds.
Corporate events and rooms that weren't built for shows
A corporate audience doesn't forgive a late room. The general session starts when the agenda says it starts.
In New Orleans that means ballrooms, hotel meeting space, convention floors and outdoor activations. We handle general sessions, galas, awards nights, conferences, grand openings and brand activations. We design speech audio for intelligibility. A keynote nobody can understand in row 20 is a failed event.
We survey the site before we quote. Power, rigging points, load-in path and ceiling height go into the scope. They don't get discovered on setup day. See how we run corporate event production.
What we bring to a New Orleans job
Event production services in New Orleans, LA come out of the same shop in Sulphur that supplies every market we work. We maintain the inventory ourselves.
Audio
Line array systems, digital consoles, Shure wireless microphones and podiums. Our engineers design the system and run it.
Lighting
key light for presenters, color and texture for gala rooms, full concert rigs when the night turns into a show.
LED video
3.9mm to 5.9mm pitch. Fine enough for close viewing in a ballroom, bright enough for daylight outdoors. Projection, switching, playback and camera as needed.
Staging
decking, risers, ramps, ADA access, skirting and barricade.
Mobile stages
They arrive, deploy and are show-ready the same day.
Crew
audio and lighting engineers, video and LED techs, stagehands. A production manager stays on your show from the first walkthrough to load-out.
Rigging
Rigging is coordinated, not blanket in-house. Our crews self-perform limited, low-risk applications. For structural work, arena rigging and anything with elevated risk, we bring in qualified rigging specialists and manage them inside the same plan. You still deal with one company.
How we get a show to New Orleans and up on time
Our shop, warehouse and fleet are in Sulphur.
The gear doesn't sit in somebody else's queue. We run our own semis, box trucks, flatbeds and trailers, and the people who loaded the truck unload it.
We plan the load-in backward from your first session or your doors time.
Doors open at seven whether or not the video wall is finished.
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 fail. We promise to be ready when it does.
Gulf summers are hard on crowds and crews.
Generators, power and event cooling travel with us, including Portacool units and misting fans, sized to the real load.
Venues and credits near New Orleans
Our credits include the New Orleans Superdome, along with festivals such as Gretna Fest, Westbank Heritage Festival, Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival and The National Fried Chicken Festival. The full list of artists, festivals, venues and organizations we can name is on Clients & Credits.
In 2022, PLSN named us Regional Lighting Company of the Year at the Parnelli Awards.
From a 200-person dinner to a 20,000-person crowd
The mistake most production companies make is treating the small job as a shrunken version of the big one. We size the crew, the gear and the process to the room in front of us.
Typical New Orleans work includes:
Corporate general sessions and conferences
Concerts and multi-stage festivals
Brand activations and public celebrations
Municipal and community events
Hotel, casino and hospitality production
Production companies, venues and promoters can also rent gear without our crew. We do dry-hire and supported packages. Equipment rental is business-to-business.
Frequently asked questions
Where will the gear and crew come from for a New Orleans event?
Gear comes from our own inventory and rides on our own trucks. The crew is our own staff. If your spec calls for something outside our inventory, we'll tell you plainly and source it. The scope still comes from us.
How much does event production in New Orleans cost?
It depends on scope, scale, duration and travel. A single general session and a three-day outdoor festival aren't in the same conversation. Give us the date, venue, headcount and what you need. You'll get a written scope and a number rather than a guess.
Can you work inside a venue's house rules and a city permit?
Yes. We build the schedule around the venue's rules instead of fighting them. On outdoor and municipal events we design audio against the permit and plan load-in and load-out around curfews and neighboring events. Send us the permit terms and the venue's rules early.
What if the room has no rigging points?
Truss and ground support cover rooms with no rigging points. For structural work, we bring in qualified rigging specialists and manage them inside our plan.
How far ahead should we book?
As early as you can, especially in festival season and for anything that needs a mobile stage. A large part of this business is solving problems on short notice, so call regardless of your date.
How soon will we hear back?
Within one business day, usually sooner. If your event is inside two weeks, call 337.626.2235. The phone is faster than the form.
Send us the date,
the venue and the city
Tell us what you're trying to do in New Orleans, how many people you expect and what you need covered. A date and a city is enough to start. You'll get a real producer, not a form response.
1441 Swisco Road, Sulphur, LA 70665