Twila Fraser-Hewlett is a BFA Drama student in the New Studio on Broadway at the renowned Tisch School for the Arts, New York University. She is an actor, dancer, singer, and theatre-maker. She most recently sang at New York City Center for the celebration of Community Day 2026. She has directed works; including Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread by David Ives for the NYU American Classics Theatre Company(TACT). And in the spring of 2025, Twila produced, directed, and starred in a new staged adaptation of the Opera America-winning pop opera Emily and Sue by Dana Kaufman and Aiden K. Feltcamp for the NYU New Studio on Broadway Free-play Festival.
Twila was recently a professional producing and management intern with Beth Morrison Projects for the 2026 Prototype Festival, one of the world's top festivals of contemporary opera and theatre. Twila continues to work as a producing intern and production assistant for The Industry Opera, an acclaimed site-specific opera theatre company based in Los Angeles. She recently assisted for the reimagined workshop of if you unfolded us, an opera by interdisciplinary artist and writer Sable Elyse Smith, with music composed and produced by David Dominique.
Twila has trained with the Martha Graham School of Dance for their summer intensive. In the summer of 2024, Twila attended the British American Drama Academy (BADA) at Oxford University, where she participated in the Midsummer program, an esteemed intensive Shakespeare training program. She is also a three-time alumna of the prestigious Interlochen Summer Arts camp, where she received the coveted Maddy Award and the National Youth Arts Award for her performance as Mother in Ragtime.
Recent roles included her performance as Lubov in The Cherry Orchard, directed by Devin Shacket. In the spring of 2026, Twila was a featured actor in the New Studio on Broadway Tisch School of the Arts production of Titanic, composed by Maury Yeston, directed by Ellie Handel, with music direction by Brian Walters. Twila made her Off-Off Broadway debut as Wei in the Nine Shadows in Bloom, at the Chaine Theatre with Dreamborne Theatre Company.
Film credits include the role of the child in the art film Still Life After Death, directed by 5-time Emmy-winning Sandra Powers, which premiered at the Sharjah Art Festival in the United Arab Emirates in 2019 and was later released on Amazon Prime Video.
Background
Twila grew up in Southern California, while often traveling to the West and East coasts of Canada to visit family. She is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. Twila had a unique exposure to contemporary opera and modern dance. She has been a collaborative artist with the California State University San Bernardino Opera Theatre, where she has appeared and assisted in many productions, including Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, Missy Mazzoli's Song from the Uproar, and Philip Glass's Book of Longing. She moved to New York City to attend the Tisch School of the Drama at New York University.