Photo: Mitch Birnbaum                              Photo: Mitch Birnbaum                                    Photo: Jan Stittleburg                                Photo: Mitch Birbaum
What We Do
Gateway Performance Productions offers performances,school assemblies and workshops for all ages. Original stage
productions featuring drama, dance, mime, masks and music written, choreographed and directed by Sandra Hughes with handcrafted museum quality masks created by Michael Hickey have toured to 36 states in the U.S. and thirteen other countries.Television productions have showcased at the American Film Institute Video Showcase in Los Angeles and been distributed nationally for Public Television. Gateway also maintains The MASK Center in Atlanta, Georgia - a unique venue and community resource for performances, rehearsals, workshops, exhibits, readings and meetings.

Special Event

An Irish Gambol
Music, Comedy, Drama and Satire

Sunday, March 18, 2012  @  7 p.m.
An Irish Gambol features Chris and Carol Moser of the Celtic music trio Barney's Goat,  Sandra Hughes and Michael Hickey of The Gateway Irish Mummers as well as readings of William Butler Yeats' short play The Words upon the Windowpane and the literary satire and wit of Jonathan Swift - performed by Jim Alexander, Jaehn Clare, Michael Hickey, Sandra Hughes, Chris Moser, Mary Emily O'Bradovich, Alfredo Rosa and Tom Spach.

@ The Mask Center
Little Five Points Community Center
008 (ground floor), 1083 Austin Ave., Atlanta, GA 30307
404 222 9262
gatewaypp@masktheatre.org
www.masktheatre.org

Recent Events
Water is Life, Hidden Springs, Atlanta
    
Hilda Willis and the Dancing Flowers for Peace        Edeliegba Bowden Senior Dance Ensemble          Jerilynn Bedingfield and Allen Pittman
Photos: Dean Hesse
 Water Is Life, Hidden Springs,Atlanta  - an outdoor  performance that celebrates Atlanta's  Natural Springs with drama dance, mime, masks and music written and directed by Sandra Hughes premiered on Saturday, November 5 at 3 p.m. for Atlanta’s 2011 Art on the Beltline. To view the online program click here. 

Ghost of the Living

  Jackie Costello and Matt Bartholomew                   Marissa Boyd and Michael Iluma                   Destiny Jackson and Veanna Black          
Photos: Sandra Hughes
Sandra Hughes directed  Ghost of the Living, a play written by Zafirah Matthews.The play premiered at the Alliance Black Box Theatre at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta on Saturday, November 5th at 7 pm as part of the 3rd Annual Young Voices with New Visions Short Play Fest. For more information about the production click here. "


"Sandra and Michael, "Thank you so very, very much for all you did to make CPSI 2011 (the 57th international Creative Problem Solving Institute)  a success. Thank you for displaying your beautiful masks, the fabulous performance and for working with the youth. It was such a pleasure to meet you and experience your vision!" 
Best wishes,
Kate Gervais - Director of Programs  
Creative Education Foundation - Amherst, MA 

"# 1 Hit of the Festival!"
Linda Palmer, Director -Seacoast Fringe Festival
Portsmouth,  New Hampshire 

"Sandra,Thanks ever so much for The Miracle. It was a gem as I knew it would be. Exquisitely designed, staged and performed. You are ... a kind of genius and I am happy we were able to feature your work in the Celtic Christmas Concert."
James W. Flannery
Winship Professor of the Arts and Humanities
Director, W. B. Yeats Foundation
Emory University 
Atlanta, Georgia