Clara Hevia
Welcome!
Clara (she/her) is an NYC & Boston-based actor & singer. She graduated from NYU Steinhardt in May of 2021, earning a B.M. in Vocal Performance/Musical Theatre with a minor in Dramatic Literature. She is passionate about Shakespeare, teaching, and accessible theatre, believing strongly in storytelling as a tool for empowerment, advocacy, and social change.
This summer, Clara is delighted to be working at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, playing Ida in the farce See How They Run and Ensemble/understudying Bea in the musical Something Rotten! Other recent credits include Mayella Ewell in Umbrella Stage Co.'s To Kill a Mockingbird, Celia in As You Like It and Perdita in The Winter's Tale with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; several concert musicals in NYC with JWM: A Theatrical Company & The Hearty Meal Theatre Co., and a year of traveling North America with the national tour of Cats as the soprano booth singer & swing, understudying Grizabella, Jellylorum, & Sillabub.
Outside of acting, Clara adores Chipotle, dance class, wandering indie bookshops or thrift stores, and making friends with as many animals as possible. She is also fascinated by human movement science, kinesiology, and psychology, and in 2024 she became an NASM-certified personal trainer.
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As You Like It - Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
“...an always effervescent Clara Hevia”
—The Boston Globe
“If the leads shine, the supporting cast glows just as brightly…Clara Hevia’s Celia is a delight to watch, even in the background, her facial experessions are their own subplot, heightening every scene she’s in.”
—Bookedandscene
“Clara Hevia lights up the stage when bursting with glee for her cousin’s newfound beau.”
—WBUR
“Clara Hevia as Rosalind’s cousin Celia is an effervescent cohort in this romantic escapade as love erupts all around them...”
—Joyce's Choices
“[Rosalind's] cousin, Celia (a charmingly bubbly Clara Hevia)..."
—The Theater Mirror
“Clara Hevia is properly understated but discerning as loyal Celia.”
—MySouthEnd
The Winter's Tale - Commonwealth Shakespeare Company
“Hevia and Olumide are a delight as the besotted couple.”
—BroadwayWorld
"...young love blooms (the delightful couple played by Clara Hevia and Joshua Olumide)"
—Joyce's Choices
King Lear - Saratoga Shakespeare Company
"[Lear] is rash with his loving daughter Cordelia (sensitively played by Clara Hevia)..."
—Saratogian
To Kill a Mockingbird - Umbrella Stage Company
"Mayella...[is] a living illustration of the adage that hurt people hurt people -- and Hevia gives her a compellingly trapped, desperate quality."
—The Boston Globe
“...Clara Hevia as Mayella Ewell and Bryce Mathieu as her accused attacker, Tom Robinson, chill the spine...in their moment, all the distance created by the structure of the play evaporates, and we squirm at the vagaries of human truth.”
—The Awkward Pose
See How They Run - Utah Shakespeare Festival
“...Clara Hevia, in the role of the increasingly overwhelmed maid Ida, is another standout."
—Deseret News
“Clara Hevia is simply hilarious as the feisty Cockney maid, Ida."
—Talkin' Broadway
“Clara Hevia gives Ida abundant personality, creating a maid who seems, at first glance, to be delightfully nosy and slightly chaotic. Yet beneath the comic bluster lies the play's quiet strategist. As the confusion deepen and everyone else is consumed by mistaken identities and mounting panic, Ida repeatedly demonstrates a practical intelligence lacking in many of her social 'betters.' She remains one step ahead, earning some of the evening's biggest laughs and the audience's affection."
—Utah Arts Journal
UPCOMING
SUMMER 2026: UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Next up: Ida in the classic farce See How They Run and
Ensemble (u/s Bea) in Something Rotten! over at Utah Shakes (June 18-October 3!)
