The Heiress
Gutierrez was a graduate of Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York, and then the Juilliard School and initially worked as a performer. He then started directing Off-Broadway, often at Playwrights Horizons. He directed, among others, the following plays at Lincoln Center: "The Most Happy Fella" (1992), "The Heiress" (1995), "A Delicate Balance" (1996), and "Dinner at Eight" (2002). His work with "The Heiress" and "A Delicate Balance" was said to be (by "Playbill") as "near perfect representations of those plays".