Acacia Forgot is the stage name of Tyler Heavner (born October 9, 1996), an American drag performer and musician competing on the upcoming seventeenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. Heavner was born in raised in a Minnesota-originating musical family in San Jose, California. After being homeschooled, they studied music therapy at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota. After finishing her degree, she worked at Mount Sinai Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit in Manhattan, New York as a music therapist.