Name Gerald Gutierrez Role Stage Director | Education Juilliard School Movies The Time of Your Life | |
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Died December 29, 2003, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Awards Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play Nominations Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Play Similar People John Lee Beatty, Cherry Jones, Marian Seldes, Catherine Zuber, Scott Waara | ||
Gerald Gutierrez (February 3, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York – December 29, 2003 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American Tony Award-winning stage- and film director.
He was a graduate of the Juilliard School and initially worked as a performer. He then started directing Off-Broadway, often at Playwrights Horizons. He directed at Lincoln Center (New York City) including The Heiress in 1995, A Delicate Balance in 1996, The Most Happy Fella and Dinner at Eight in 2002. His work with The Heiress and A Delicate Balance was said to be (by Playbill) as "near perfect representations of those plays".
Of The Heiress, the Variety reviewer wrote: "Although Gerald Gutierrez’s direction can’t be undervalued, The Heiress is not by any stretch “director’s theater.”... Under Gutierrez’s sure hand, the exceptional cast never falters."
He directed the Wendy Wasserstein play Isn't It Romantic in 1983; Gutierrez and Wasserstein were good friends.
He was said to have "an obsession with detail that made each production tick like a perfectly calibrated clock", and to do "ferocious" research. André Bishop, a close friend of Gutierrez, said "Of all the directors I know, he was one who combined a scrupulous sense of reality with enormous flair and style."
Awards and nominations
Gutierrez was nominated for the 1994 Tony Award, Director of a Play for Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
He won the 1995 Tony Award, Director of a Play for The Heiress and the 1996 Tony Award, Director of a Play for A delicate Balance.