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About the Omaha Mobile Stage Program

Omaha Mobile Stage (OMS) lifts up local performing artists and builds community. OMS is Livable Omaha's live event production training program and mobile venue. We provide professional outdoor staging, sound engineering, and recording services. 

In 2021, as a response to the pandemic, the Omaha Mobile Stage (OMS) project transformed a repurposed 18-foot box truck into an accessible, adaptable and easily transportable stage. Today, OMS is a metro-wide venue and tourist attraction that provides community-driven entertainment and arts enrichment. Its productions are seen by thousands of audience members each season. Our community-driven events are free and open to the public and run from April through October. Events are co-produced with neighborhoods, educators, arts organizations, and national and local artists and creatives.

Since its inception in 2021, OMS has been guided by four placemaking goals.

  1. Increasing access to the performing arts for all ages

  2. Supporting performing artists and neighborhood businesses

  3. Increasing vibrancy and intergenerational social connection

  4. Strengthening creative workforce and community networks

The Omaha Mobile Stage Youth Talent Show Summer Series is an outdoor amateur talent competition series for ages 3 through graduating high school seniors. The series has been active for 4 seasons.

The 2025 Youth Talent Show series featured more than 190 youth participants from across 38 different zip codes and from more than 68 different schools and performing arts studios.

We use a sliding-scale rental model to provide the general public with equitable access to a state-of-the-art mobile stage venue with professional audio and lighting equipment and event production services.

Accomplishments

  • Attendees dancing at Pull Up and Vibe in the Benson Creative District on May 3, 2024.

    2024

    Provided free arts enrichment and entertainment to 23,000+ visitors at 28 free events in the Omaha metro

    Hosted more than 220 unique performances that featured more than 140 individual adult performers and more than 230 individual youth performers

    Paid over $68,360 to creative workers, including event planners and managers, audio engineers, stagehands, and professional artist stipends

    Provided paid work to 8 participants in our creative workforce development program

    Supported a semester-long music tech studio at UNO’s School of Music for the creation of SOUNDSPARK

    Received 1 national design award

    Ran a social media awareness campaign, focused on the greater Omaha metro, that included 200+ posts, 19 original videos, and reached 153,000+ people

  • Girl playing a violin on stage at a youth talent show in Millard Nebraska in 2023.

    2023

    Provided free arts enrichment and entertainment to 11,500+ visitors at 30 free events in the Omaha metro

    Hosted more than 215 unique performances that featured more than 50 individual adult performers and more than 230 individual youth performers

    Paid over $135,500 directly to creative workers, including event planners and managers, designers, audio engineers, stagehands, and professional artist stipends

    Provided paid work to 11 young adult participants in our creative workforce development program

    Supported a semester-long music tech studio at UNO’s School of Music for the creation of Noisefest

    Featured in 12 news outlets

    Received 2 national design awards

    Ran a social media awareness campaign, focused on the greater Omaha metro, that included 240+ posts, 19 original videos, and reached 161,000+ people

  • Band on a mobile stage at Porchfest Omaha in 2022.

    2022

    Hosted 14 free live entertainment events in the Omaha metro 

    Hosted more than 90 unique performing artists of all ages 

    Began a creative workforce development program to train and mentor audio engineers and stagehands

    Featured in 10 local publications and 1 national outlet

    Celebrated the end of OMS's construction

    Ran a social media awareness campaign that included over 200 posts, 5 original videos and reached 54,000+ people

  • Students outside of a box truck to prepare to turn it into a mobile stage.

    2021

    Purchased and repaired the OMS truck 

    Supported a semester-long designbuild studio at UNL’s Nebraska Innovation Studio and College of Architecture for 16 undergraduate students

    Completed the OMS design, including the custom truck fit-out plan and equipment selections

    Hosted a public event to announce the final design

    Completed the first 50% of OMS's construction tasks

    Supported Omaha and Lincoln-based metal workers, mechanics, musicians, and designers

    Launched a social media awareness campaign that included 190 posts and 12 original videos and reached 8,300 people