Gateway Center For Performing Arts

GCPA seeks to engage young actors in our community within all aspects of the performing arts process, providing them with the opportunity to develop their talents in musical theatre and its individual disciplines. Beyond the valuable performance skills students develop, they also gain important life skills that will help them as they enter into adulthood, such as teamwork, respect, problem-solving, personal responsibility, preparation, and social skills...all of which build their confidence. 

Youth in our program learn to collaborate alongside peers who come from many diverse backgrounds and ages as they work together telling stories. Alumni from GCPA have used the skills they developed at GCPA to successfully audition and enroll in advanced programs, studying musical theatre, acting, film, and song writing at New York University-Tisch School Of The Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, Boston Conservatory, Indiana University, Elon University, Roosevelt University (Chicago), Belmont University, Oklahoma City University, Baldwin Wallace, and the University of Texas at Austin.

GCPA has served the communities of St. Louis for over 10 years, providing a wide variety of performing arts programming in a number of different communities. Our home in Webster Groves houses four dance studios, two acting studios, and three voice studios in which we offer classes six days a week in singing, dancing, and acting. Students ages 5 through adult have many opportunities to try new disciplines and broaden their skill sets to meet their goals. We also offer a great spread of summer camps and summer classes. Our Youth Theatre Company produces five full-scale musicals every year, open by audition to actors ages 5-20.