Dan started work as a lighting Designer in 2016 for Town Square Players' production of Mary Poppins in Woodstock, IL. Since then he has done Lighting Design for multiple community theatres in the Illinois area as well as student lead productions at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. He has also designed the Lighting for several Senior Dance capstone performances at GVSU as well as Judith Svalander’s 2019 production of the The Sleeping Beauty- Ballet at the Woodstock Opera House.