He has built a career around using theater as a way of exploring issues of social inequality as well as self-empowerment. His study of theatre has taken him all over the Americas and to the Caribbean. Through a Cornerstone Theater Company residency Guillermo was able to attend the University of Utah (U of U). There he excelled both academically and artistically. Academic achievements include becoming a National Hispanic Scholar, and earning a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the U of U’s conservatory Actors Training Program. He holds the distinction of being the first Chicana/o ever to star in a production at the University of Utah.