We love creative challenges and helping take clients' ideas off paper and bringing them to life.
WHAT WE DO
>> SNAPSHOT OF EXPERTISE
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Concept
We will take your ideas and flesh them out with our in house design team to make them a reality. Our design team and project managers are also great collaborators to bring new ideas to life.
Blueprints
Our designers use the latest industry tools to develop 2D and 3D designs. We share our initial designs as well as updates with clients, making this approach a “playbook” for our team and our partners to work from starting from render to reality.
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Fabrication
We pride ourselves in helping clients create custom, physical elements for their events. Whether we’re transforming a space or enhancing an overall festival experience, we welcome the creative challenge to go beyond the basics and help create unique structures for our clients’ events. Our “bread and butter” is helping clients bring structural visions to life - such as custom, visually stimulating or “Instagramable” moments, experiential activations, pop ups, and more.
WHO WE ARE
>> MEET YOUR TEAM
Duff Rice
CEO
Omar Gagan
Executive Producer
Katie Steel
Business Manager
Montana Taube-White
Producer
Braden Rice
Associate Producer
Gina Goldsmith
Director of Client Partnerships
Colleen Schrieber
Digital Marketing Specialist
Jordan Roberts
Graphic Designer
Kelli Packer
Public Relations Guru
OUR WORK
>> WHERE YOU'VE SEEN OUR WORK
Taste of Randolph
The Ask: Create a visually stimulating photo opportunity or “social media” moment for festival goers.
The Result: Branded logo design prominently displayed at the festival, resulting in a 10-minute line for attendees to take photos in front of.
Windy City Smokeout
The Ask: Design a double-decker VIP structure for event attendees to have a prominent view of the stage and thousands of festival goers.
The Result: A multi-tiered, branded VIP viewing area for attendees.
Windy City Smokeout
The Ask: Create a front of house structure for sound engineers and VIP attendees to view the stage.
The Result: A one-of-a-kind, multi-tiered, branded structure for festival sound mixers and VIPS.
Saint James
The Ask: Create a branded "saloon" experience for product sampling.
The Result: A fun, immersive saloon product sampling experience, as well as a visually stimulating space for festival attendees to take photos with product and brand logos throughout the space.
Pizza City Fest
The Ask: To create a unique photo opportunity with a festival sponsor.
The Result: A one-of-kind pizza peel collage prominently displayed at the entrance of the festival for attendees to take photos next to and in front of during the event.
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TESTIMONIALS
>> WHAT OUR CLIENTS HAVE TO SAY
“Duff entertainment has a been great partner for Long Grove and our events. They think outside the box to create and implement ideas to make our fests better and more profitable. The team is knowledgeable and great to work with.”
- Ryan Messner, Village of Long Grove Business Owner & Historic Downtown Long Grove Business Association President
“We’ve worked with several production companies over the past few years, doing Pizza City Fests in L.A. and Nashville, as well as Chicago, but having finally collaborated with the Duff team in 2025, we see now what competence looks like. Duff and his entire team were always available, always willing to work through a potential hurdle, and always managed to do so with complete confidence and calm. They are all seasoned vets who talked me off the ledge almost daily. I wouldn’t hesitate to work them again on any future productions."
- Steve Dolinsky, founder of Pizza City Fest & Pizza City USA
“Collaborating with the team at Duff Entertainment has been a truly seamless and rewarding experience. Their ability to bring ideas to life with precision, creativity, and reliability sets them apart in every way. From start to finish, they approached Taste of Randolph™ like it truly was meant to be, a community driven event that benefits the neighborhood. With true dedication and problem solving by every team member, it makes them an invaluable partner.”
- Julie Darling, President of West Loop Community Organization & Taste of Randolph