Dusten is an award-winning fight choreographer with The Kennedy Center for the Arts American College Theatre Festival (Fight Director of Merit | 2006 & 2015), and an award winning director with Scene Magazine (Best Outdoor Arts Experience - A Midsummer Night's Dream | 2015). His fight choreography has been seen at Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland's Ensemble Theatre, Dobama Theatre, and educationally at The Academy for the Performing Arts, Ashland University, St. Bonaventure University, and Baldwin Wallace University. 

He is the Artistic Director for Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, adjunct professor of Stage Combat for Baldwin Wallace University's BFA, MT, and BA programs, and freelances as a graphic designer.