Gateway Performance Productions (named the Great American Mime Experiment/G.A.M.E until 1991) was founded in 1974 in Atlanta, GA after Sandra Hughes completed a professional acting/directing apprenticeship at the Cleveland Play House and Michael Hickey completed a professional acting/theatrical design apprenticeship at Kenley Players. Previous to founding the Company both artists studied with Israeli mime artist Juki Arkin as theatre arts students at Ohio University and later participated in 5 years of professional seminars with French mime artist Marcel Marceau.
