Dan Crosby
Dan Crosby
Stagecraft Teacher
Dan Crosby joined the rhetoric school faculty in 2025 and teaches the stagecraft elective. He is also co-owner of Grit & Grain Co., a local custom woodworking and furniture business.
Dan earned associate’s degrees in film and fine art at Valencia College and went on to study at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sculpture. He worked for a bronze foundry in Chelsea, MA, before returning to Florida with his young family in 2010. For the next five years he was a model-maker with Guard-Lee, Inc., where he designed and created aerospace replicas for notable museums, including the Kennedy Space Center and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. In 2015, Dan partnered with a fellow craftsman to start Grit & Grain Co., while continuing to create both personal and commissioned artwork.
A ninth-generation woodworker from a line of boat-builders, Dan has been an artist since a young age, spending hours a day with clay, pencil, or brush in hand. In 2023, Dan was selected as an Arts Fellowship Orlando fellow and presented his sculpture of John the Baptist, titled “Decreased,” at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. A narrative artist who enjoys telling stories through the use of a variety of materials and mediums, Dan is intrigued by the pursuit of deeper truth woven throughout humanity and motivated by a desire to see the Creator’s hand in the most insignificant places and objects.
Dan has been married to Rebekah since 2004 and they have two daughters, Evelyn (TGS class of 2026) and Daisy (TGS class of 2032).
