A Tulsa-based company which specializes in lighting, video and audio installations for businesses or events will participate in staging one of several inaugural balls scheduled for Jan. 20th in Washington, D.C.
Specifically, DC Pro LVA will provide lighting for an inaugural ball hosted by Turning Point USA.
It isn’t one of the three “official” inaugural balls - but will have some very high-profile attendees, including Donald Trump, Jr. and Vice President-elect J. D. Vance.
Founder Daniel Connell tells KRMG his company began working with TPUSA through another production company called Mosaic, based in Phoenix.
[Hear the KRMG In Depth Report on Daniel Connell and DC Pro LVA HERE]
Connell says he’s known the owner of Mosaic for years, and when asked if he’d like to collaborate on projects a couple years back, he said yes... “and we’ve done every event since.”
Connell first came to Tulsa to work with Church on the Move, and says when they offered him a job, at first he wasn’t interested.
“At first I kind of laughed it off,” he told KRMG. “I was like ‘no no no - I’m a professional lighting designer, I’m not going to work for some church in Tulsa. And I went back to Alabama, where I was still living at the time, and could not shake that feeling that no - I’m supposed to be out there.”
He moved to Tulsa in 2007, founded DC Pro in 2012, and by 2015 decided to strike out on his own full time.
In 2020 - just as the world was entering a pandemic - he hired his first employee.
Despite all the challenges, his company’s grown quite a bit since then, and a couple months ago, he hired his 25th employee.
Connell says he’s recently begun working with the State of Oklahoma, and hopes to further that relationship while also continuing to help stage events for TPUSA and the Trump organization.