Adia Dightman
Adia Dightman

Senior Live Events & Experiential Producer

Open to offers · Member since 21 Aug 2026
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Location
Dallas, United States
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time, Contract
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a senior experiential producer specializing in live events, sports activations, and brand campaigns. I lead end-to-end production across planning, budgets, vendor negotiations, staffing, logistics, and on-site execution.

I have delivered high-profile work for brands including DoorDash, McDonald's, EA Sports, Anheuser-Busch, Hennessy, TuneCore, and The Venetian. My experience spans sports, music, hospitality, consumer engagement, conferences, and large-scale cultural events.

I manage complex operational programs with a strong focus on financial accountability, from $200,000 annual activation programs to million-dollar event budgets and inventories. I build repeatable production infrastructure while maintaining high standards for guest experience, safety, and brand execution.

I am experienced in leading cross-functional teams, vendors, production crews, brand ambassadors, talent, venue partners, and stakeholders. I am comfortable solving real-time issues on the ground and guiding programs through load-in, live operations, and final strike.

My recent work includes managing a nine-event FIFA activation tour that generated more than two million out-of-home impressions, producing a Muse Award-winning experiential booth, and leading activations for major sports and entertainment properties. I bring strategic planning, hands-on leadership, and creative operational execution to every event.

I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media Arts–Journalism and a Google Project Management Professional Certificate. I am also TABC certified and a Texas Notary Public.

Skills

20 capabilities

Experience

Career history

Sr. Producer, City Manager, DoorDash "Deliver Us to Futbol" FIFA Octagon

Managed on-site operations for a nine-event DoorDash FIFA activation tour in Dallas, leading a team of eight staff members across game days.

Led a mobile campaign using two wrapped shuttle buses, generating an estimated two million out-of-home impressions and transporting 100 guests across nine game days. Directed route planning, multi-stop logistics, talent coordination, venue operations, and real-time stakeholder issue resolution.

Sr. Producer of Live Events & Experiential (Contract) Heist Agency

Design and manage live-event and experiential programs for major brands and properties. Own production planning, budgets, vendor coordination, staffing, creative execution, venue operations, and on-site delivery.

For Cushman & Wakefield East River, manage a 12-month bi-monthly activation program and a $200,000 annual budget. Produced TuneCore Sounds & Sessions, Hennessy Rodeo Houston, the Anheuser-Busch x Houston Texans BudLight installation, Hottieween by Megan Thee Stallion, and the Muse Award-winning Dreamcon x Chica Divertidas experiential booth.

Lead event lifecycles from setup through load-out, including talent booking, food and beverage, sponsorships, fabricators, brand ambassadors, crowd flow, technical operations, and stakeholder communications.

Sr. Producer, Production Manager, Essence Festival, Food & Wine Stage Gaspard Consulting Group

Led Food & Beverage demonstrations and sampling plans for the Essence Festival Food & Wine Stage, working with third-party and convention center vendors.

Managed back-of-house operations, production team members, brand ambassadors, and production assistants. Resolved operational issues involving food and beverage sampling, stage technology equipment, green room food and furniture, and external vendor requirements.

Producer, Experiential & Live Events We Are Social

Produced experiential and live-event programs across Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, and Los Angeles for McDonald's, The Venetian Resorts & Hotel, EA Sports, and MLS.

Led 17 McDonald's All American Games local activations across two Houston city takeovers. Managed vendors, staff, volunteers, sports-arena activation loads, tour logistics, ticketing, and a million-dollar inventory; implemented an inventory system that improved efficiency by 20%.

Managed million-dollar F1 event budgets for The Venetian, negotiated contracts, procured vendors, controlled costs, and coordinated display booth logistics. Also produced McDonald's Art Basel artist residency work and directed on-site content production for EA Sports x MLS.

Education

Learning history

Clark Atlanta University

Bachelor of Arts, Mass Media Arts – Journalism

Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media Arts with a Journalism concentration.

Google

Professional Certificate, Project Management

Google Project Management Professional Certificate.

Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission

Certification, TABC

TABC Certification, valid through 2027.

State of Texas

Notary Public Certificate, Notary Public

Texas Notary Public certificate.

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