Scott Whitfield Email & Phone Number

Next Page Event Services has shut our doors and we are going separate ways. My new endeavor is called Event Production Services, LLC. Our offices are located on the east side of Atlanta, right at 285.

I create beautiful environments for all sorts of special events in all manner of locations. My team can turn a gymnasium into a gala, an arena into a fishing tournament, a film studio into a boutique lounge -we get awesome results for clients like the TriBeCa Film Festival, the South by Southwest Film and Music Festival, Fortune 500 companies, and even schools in the Atlanta area.

Lilburn, Ga

Anyone who doesn't think leading Cub Scouts is a big job has never done it. We do all sorts of activities including swimming, camping, hiking, and mentoring young boys.I thoroughly enjoy it. I don't have my guys making those brown-paper-sack-hand-puppets either. We make PVC pipe / 2L bottle air rockets and teach the boys to cook their own camp meals over a campfire. Not hotdogs either...

My best clients come to me with an idea - that's all. We sit and brainstorm and create an environment in concept. I take that idea into the discovery phase where I apply it to the reality of our setting...how the venue and logistics relate to what can be done and what can appear to be done. I create things for the audience that do not exist and cannot be done, and yet, here they are. I specialize in doing the gigs that can't be done. And nobody crams 4 semis of production into a ballroom better than me.I manage the process from technical 3-D drawings and renderings, working with the venue and other vendors, supervising crew chiefs and stagehands; I make gigs happen, clients smile, and audiences applaud all around the world.I still get a thrill hanging 150,000 pounds overhead too. That's more than most shows, which land somewhere between 10,000 - 50,000 pounds. I love what I do.

I create events from the napkin to the applause. I do all the stuff in between.

Mercenary was my first real stab at owning equipment and servicing corporate accounts. I started the company in Chicago and built a reputation there. Much of the work was performed in other cities however. I merged with I&T in 1997 because it created a more stable platform with my partners and had a better name for the corporate market.

While at Pete's, I toured with music groups like Pantera and Huey Lewis. I was the Crew Chief for the stadium tour of the Budweiser Superfest - setting up in Soldier Field, RFK Stadium, and the Georgia Dome to name a few. Pete's taught me how to be fast and efficient without worrying about superficial details that were not necessary to getting the immediate job done.

Greater Chicago Area

I wound up buying the lighting department from Media Control in 1995 and servicing their clients under a deal we created. I learned a lot about the corporate marketplace and how it relates to theatrical entertainment production.

While at SSI, I did more one-offs than I can remember. We did shows 4 nights each week, usually for 4 different groups, sometimes in 4 different cities. I got to flash shows for several great acts, and worked in almost every venue in the Southeast. It was hard work but a blast.

Reel Rock helped me cut my teeth in the industry. I learned the basics and helped create several methods of getting production accomplished in difficult locations. We did lots of outdoor work - university and festival gigs - and some corporate work. They taught me how to mix audio, flash lights, and climb steel. I learned how to build a dimmer pack or an audio splitter snake from scratch. We carried hundreds of 4x8 plywood over 2x4 stage decks in the hot Florida sun. Hung par 64's in live oak trees on a plantation. Flew Santa Claus down from the roof. Rigged holiday decorations in shopping malls by climbing around in the exposed steel ceilings.