Event production
Complete event production, from plan to load-out.
End-to-end audio, lighting, video, staging, design, and crews for corporate events and live music.
Midwest AV plans and delivers complete technical production for conferences, galas, concerts, festivals, tours, and live experiences. Our Chicago-based team manages the details from the first technical conversation through load-out, with regional reach across the Midwest and nationwide support when the production requires it.
Corporate events
Give your planning team one accountable technical partner for general sessions, conferences, galas, product launches, trade shows, and hybrid programs. We align audio, video, lighting, staging, recording, streaming, and crew with the event schedule and the audience experience.
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Concerts, festivals, and touring
Build a show-ready system for concerts, festivals, tours, and live entertainment. Midwest AV combines system design, production equipment, technical direction, and experienced operators so artists, promoters, and venues can focus on the performance.
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Pre-show design
Every reliable show starts with a clear technical plan. We turn creative goals, venue constraints, schedules, and budgets into coordinated audio, lighting, video, staging, rigging, and power systems. CAD drawings, signal plans, equipment preparation, and previsualization help the full team understand the show before load-in.
The same production team carries that plan into the venue. This continuity reduces surprises, protects rehearsal time, and keeps every department working from the same plan.
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On-site execution
Project managers, technical directors, engineers, programmers, camera operators, riggers, stagehands, and specialists work from one production plan. We coordinate load-in, rehearsals, show operation, changeovers, and strike around the venue and event schedule.
Midwest AV stays responsible for communication and delivery across the full technical production. The result is one team to call, one plan to follow, and fewer gaps between departments.
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Complete technical production
Choose the departments you need, or have one Midwest AV team manage the complete show.
Explore professional equipmentAudio
System design, live sound, wireless coordination, recording, and experienced engineers for clear coverage.
Lighting
Fixtures, control, programming, timecode, and design that support the room, the camera, and the performance.
Video
Projection, displays, cameras, switching, playback, recording, and LED systems for live audiences.
Staging and power
Staging, scenic, drape, rigging coordination, and power distribution planned as one safe system.
Technical direction
Production leadership, show control, schedules, rehearsals, cues, and cross-department coordination.
Crews and logistics
Operators, stagehands, transportation, load-in, changeovers, and strike managed around the show.
Selected work
Proof from the production floor.
Explore existing Midwest AV projects related to this kind of production.
Corporate and gala production
Lake Forest Academy Fundraising Gala
Stage, drape, projection, cameras, and onsite crew for a school fundraising gala.
Convention production support
Strike for Midwest FurFest 2026
A rapid 12-person load-out crew for the convention’s main ballroom stage.
Tour production support
Kevin James Eat The Frog Tour
Tour lighting support at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Wisconsin.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is included in full event production?
Production can include audio, lighting, video, staging, rigging coordination, power, technical direction, crews, and logistics.
When does Midwest AV get involved?
The team can help from the first technical conversation through planning, load-in, rehearsals, show operation, and load-out.
Where does Midwest AV provide production?
The Chicago-based team works across the Midwest and travels nationwide when the production requires it.
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Tell us what you are producing.
Tell us what you know about the event, venue, schedule, and technical needs. We’ll help you figure out the next step.