Sandra Lee Hughes is the Founding Artistic Director, choreographer, director, performer and writer.

Hughes is the Founding Artistic Director of Gateway Performance Productions. Her original theatre productions, combining stunning visuals, masks, dance, mime, music and text, have been performed in 30 states in the U.S. and in Canada, Mexico, Western and Eastern Europe. Highlights include performances at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts/NYC, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian/NYC, and with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Akron Symphony.

Hughes has also created a significant body of work for television.  Awards and recognitions include a regional EMMY for "Outstanding Entertainment of the Year", inclusion in the American Film Institute Video Festival in Los Angeles with nomination for the Robert Bennett Award, two national CINDY Awards for Excellence in Children's Programming and National Distribution on Public Television.

The Sandra L. Hughes Theatre Collection housed at Ohio State University documents Hughes' professional achievements in the field of professional theatre, as well as her contribution to the emergence of the art of mime as a major theatre form in the U.S. during the last half of the 20th century. The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute at Ohio State University.
Hughes dedicates a significant portion of her career to arts-in-education projects throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her background includes mime training with Juki Arkin and Marcel Marceau, dance with Valentina Litvinoff of Isadora Duncan's Russian School, acting at Stella Adler Acting Conservatory/NYC, Japanese Noh Theatre with Akira Matsui and Richard Emmert as well as a professional acting and directing apprenticeship at the Cleveland Play House.

Read more about Sandra in a recent article by the Atlanta Journal Constitution!

Sandra recently wrote an article for Mythic Passages, the Magazine of Imagination, for tth Mythic Imagination Institute, about The Mask as Messenger. Please read it here.