Classically trained dancer, vocalist, actor, and filmmaker NK Gutiérrez has excelled in nearly every facet of entertainment. She is well known for recurring roles in Showtime's The Chi and NBC's Chicago Fire, and for her show-stopping portrayal of Mamie Till in Collaboraction's 2026 run of Trial in the Delta at the House of Belonging, the Chicago History Museum, and most recently at Emmett Till: The Pursuit of Happiness, an 85th birthday commemoration dinner at the Obama Presidential Center. She reprises the role for Collaboraction in February 2027.
 

Through All Things NK Productions, she wrote, produced and starred in the short film The Last New Year. As Executive Director of the Midwest Film Festival, she led its 2026 expansion into Midwest Royale, five days of screenings dedicated to Midwestern storytellers. She also works as an intimacy coordinator on film and television sets. Born in Topeka, Kansas, she trained at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama before making Chicago home. She presently serves as a board member of the Film Festival Alliance and Member of the Future Film Coalition.