Eric D. Pasto-Crosby is a proud native of Nashville, he graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder with a B.F.A. in performance studies.  There he studied stage combat and fight choreography under Fight Master Geoffrey Kent, and later with Fight Master Richard Ryan. He has choreographed fights for: Nashville Children’s Theatre, Belmont University, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Opera, Chaffin’s Barn Dinner Theatre, Street Theatre, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Tennessee Shakespeare Festival, Tennessee Repertory Theatre(Nashville Rep), People’s Branch Theatre, Blackbird Theatre, Woven Theatre, and was fight captain and co-choreographer for: Stage One: The Louisville Children’s Theatre, and The Colorado Shakespeare Festival. A loyal member and certified advanced actor combatant through the Society of American Fight Directors, he has choreographed violence for many films, and schools in the Nashville area, as well as being the stage combat instructor for Belmont University for the last 10 years. He is also a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.