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Event Design & Management, Party & Special Event Rentals, Theatrical & Event Lighting, AV, Theme Decorating, Drape, Centerpieces, Linens, Stage Sets, Games, Custom Fabrication, and Creative People.

Ampa Events is a full-service event production company providing creative design solutions tailored to the needs of each client. What makes us different is our in-house custom fabrication and massive inventory curated over three decades. Our services include special events and conference planning, management, logistics, and execution. Since 1996, we have designed programs for corporations, associations, and worthy causes as well as partnered with DMCs, travel organizations, caterers, planners, and venues. Serving Virginia, Washington, DC, the Mid Atlantic, east coast, and touring, Ampa makes every event special!

Ampa Events, a complete source of production services and equipment for entertaining, branding, supporting a message, heightening awareness of a cause, political campaigns and gathering people for purpose and fun.

A history of event planning, special event equipment, creative event designs and custom fabrications.

For nearly 30 years, Ted Rubis has played a role in life’s most poignant moments. The first dance between a newlywed couple. Friends reuniting to share decades-old memories. A political hopeful launching a career. Colleagues uniting toward a shared mission. Volunteers raising money for a cause dear to their hearts. Through it all, Ampa has relied on great service as a founding principle: working with you, listening for needs and then delivering solutions to meet them.

Ted Rubis launched Ampa in 1985 as an entertainment-booking agency, building on his experiences with special events and his affinity for bringing people together. Responding to demand, Ampa expanded its services becoming a full service event producer.

By the 1990s the company offered complete designs including construction of stage sets, custom props and scenery, was invested in a warehouse full of lighting, rigging and audiovisual effects and developed a staggering inventory of theme decor. More importantly, we built a team… a team of creative theater professionals and artisans who know how to pull all the parts together, at any budget, to serve client’s needs. Ampa can dazzle a large audience, bring crowds to their feet or discreetly fade into the background for those special moments…

As a Virginia-based company, Ampa serves local, regional, and national clients. Hire Ampa and you are hiring a direct source of equipment, technical, and design services – a masterful company to orchestrate a total solutions or serve a specific need. Let us help you start celebrating, commemorating, and bringing people together.

What We Do
Event, conference & wedding planning; party and special event rental equipment; creative solutions including lighting, audio visual and event decorating.

What makes Ampa stand out: skilled staff, inventory, efficiencies and flexibility. Ampa is equally able to orchestrate a total solution or provide one item of the event, tailoring our services to clients needs. With all the equipment, services and personnel under one roof, at any budget, Ampa seeks to exceed client’s expectations.

  • Scenic Design
  • Carpentry
  • Technical Building
  • Stage Set Design
  • Scenic Painting
  • Hard Coatings
  • Prop Shop
  • Soft Goods & Drape Systems
  • Foam Carving
  • Graphic Design & Web Design
  • CAD Design Renderings
  • CAD Design Shop Projects
  • Sewing
  • Lighting Design
  • Gobo Design
  • Rigging
  • Audio/Visual
  • Streaming Virtual Meetings
  • Planning 
  • Directing
  • Scripting
  • Destination Services
  • Event Management
  • Logistics
  • Scheduling
  • Conference services
  • Trade Show Services
  • Games

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Team

Ted Rubis

President

Stephanie Rubis

Vice President

Sandy Crowe

Bookkeeper

Leslie Amason

Senior Event Designer

James Meekins

Graphic Designer

Tripp Marcus

Theatre Technician

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