Who we are
The crew a producer can vouch for.
Avant Garde Productions is a full-service production company — staging, lighting, sound and rigging designed and run by our own in-house crew, not assembled from strangers the week of the show. When a corporate client, agency or venue needs a partner they can put their name behind, this is what that looks like: licensed, insured, and built to show up prepared.
We run every job the same way, whether it's a two-hundred-person activation or a full festival build: one estimate, one crew, one point of contact from the first site walk to final strike. Nothing gets improvised on show day, because nothing was left to chance on paper.
Licensed · Insured to $5M · Certified riggers
Credentials, plainly
What “licensed and insured” actually means here.
No fine print, no hand-waving — here's exactly what's on file and what it covers.
Licensed
Avant Garde Productions operates as a properly licensed business — the paperwork a venue's risk team, an insurer or a corporate procurement office asks for before signing off, already on file.
Insured to $5M
We carry general liability coverage up to $5M under an umbrella policy — real headroom for venues, insurers and corporate risk teams that require more than a bare-minimum policy. We name your venue as additional insured on the certificate — the exact document a venue checks before load-in — and certificates of insurance are available on request.
ETCP-certified riggers
Anything flown above your audience is built and signed off by ETCP-certified riggers — the recognized rigging-certification standard convention centers and hotels increasingly require. Certificates are available on request whenever your venue or insurer needs them on file.
Permits & engineered plans
We handle the permitting for temporary structures and arrange engineer-stamped plans where the venue or the county requires them. The licensed engineer signs and seals; we coordinate the whole packet so nothing stalls at inspection.
Union-venue coordination
At union venues we work with the house crew, not around it — coordinating cleanly with local stagehands, including IATSE Local 500, so the schedule holds and the load-in runs the way the venue expects.
How we subcontract
When a job needs a specialist outside our core crew — a licensed electrician, an extra certified rigger, gear we don't carry in-house — we bring one in under our production and our accountability, always properly licensed and certified for that scope. Nothing on your show runs off the books.
How we cover the job
One production capability — our gear, our people, our name on it.
Our core crew runs sound, lighting, staging and rigging out of our own inventory, on our own trucks, start to finish. For scope that falls outside that core kit, we add a vetted, certified specialist to the team for that job — still run under our production, our schedule and our sign-off. Either way, you're working with one accountable team and one estimate, not a chain of subcontractors you have to track yourself.
- Sound, lighting, staging and rigging built and run by our in-house crew
- Bilingual crews that run the show operationally in English and Spanish — on comms and on the floor, not just at the sales desk
- Specialist scope added under our production when a job calls for it — never subbed out blind
- One point of contact and one estimate, from first call to final strike
Dates go fast — lock yours in
Let's build
the show.
Tell us the date, the room and the vision — we'll spec the rig.