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Gabrielle Alexa Gutierrez (born September 29, 2005) is a Filipina-American stage actress prominently known as the first Filipina to play the lead role of
Gabby Gutierrez' Broadway credits page
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Gabrielle Alexa Gutierrez (born September 29, 2005) is a Filipina-American stage actress prominently known as the first Filipina to play the lead role of Matilda
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in a major musical theatre adaptation of the novel of the same name
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Career
Gutierrez was a piano prodigy, winning a contest that gave her the opportunity to perform atCarnegie Hall
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when she was five years old. She began her formal music career in 2014 when she was cast as Ngana in Paper Mill Playhouse
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production of Rodgers-Hammerstein classic ''South Pacific
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''. In late 2014, she was cast as Annie Who for the national tour of ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas''. While working on said production, she was cast as the lead for the Royal Shakespeare Company's ''Matilda The Musical
''Roald Dahl's Matilda'', also known simply as ''Matilda'' and ''Matilda the Musical'', is a musical with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly. It is based on the 1988 novel '' Matilda'' by Roald Dahl. The musical's narr ...
''. She performed with the production from May 2015 through January 2017.
Personal life
Gutierrez traces her roots toBukidnon
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, Philippines
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. As of 2015 she resides in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey
Springfield Township is a township in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is located on a ridge in northern- central New Jersey, within the Raritan Valley and Rahway Valley regions in the New York metropolitan area ...
with her older sister and their parents.
Gutierrez attended Jonathan Dayton High School
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where she performed with the school's theater department. Recently Gutierrez starred in a production of ''Heathers: Teen Edition'', where she played lead Veronica Sawyer.
Filmography
Theatre
Television
References
External links
Gabby Gutierrez' Broadway credits page
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