Julia Newman | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Film score, classical, electronic, ambient |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Years active | 2019–present |
Julia Newman is an American composer best known for her television scores and her collaborations with her father, film composer Thomas Newman, and television showrunner Ryan Murphy.
Newman was born and raised in Los Angeles, one of three children of film composer Thomas Newman and Ann Marie Zirbes. Newman comes from a family of film composers, including her father, Thomas Newman; her grandfather, Alfred Newman; and uncles Randy Newman and David Newman. [1]
Julia Newman was exposed to film composing at an early age, and visited the recording studio named after her grandfather as a child. [2] She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute for the Arts, and a Masters Degree from Screen Scoring program at the USC Thornton School of Music in 2020. [3] While at USC, Newman begin scoring short films, before transitioning to feature films and television work. [4] With her father, Thomas Newman, she composed the score for Fued: Capote vs. The Swans , the first of her collaborations with showrunner Ryan Murphy. [5] Newman again collaborated with her father and Ryan Murphy in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story , which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score). [6]
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Coupled | Emma Sofia Fazzuoli | Web series (6 episodes) |
| 2024 | Fued: Capote vs. The Swans | Ryan Murphy | (8 episodes) |
| Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story | Ryan Murphy | (9 episodes) (co-composed with Thomas Newman) | |
| American Horror Stories | Alexis Martin Woodall | (Season 3, Episode 8, "Leprechaun") | |
| Doctor Odyssey | various | (14 episodes) |
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Dog | Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin | Electro-Acoustic Programing |
| At the Gates | Augustus Meleo Bernstein | Composer | |
| 2023 | Elemental | Peter Sohn | Score coordinator |
| 2024 | Freak Bikes (documentary) | Ryan Henry Mekenian | Composer |
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Van Life | Michael G. Gabel | Composer |
| Simply Having | Michael Strassner | Composer | |
| The Bicycle Kitchen | Ryan Henry Mekenian | Composer | |
| 2020 | In Her Corner | Emma Cataldo | Composer |
| Comet | Kendall Huff | Composer | |
| Spokespeople | Ryan Henry Mekenian | Composer | |
| 2021 | Disconnected | Daniel Sheahan | Composer |
| Adaptation | Elisabetta Fox Piantoni | Composer | |
| 2022 | Sunflower | Elizabeth Tawose | Composer |
| Lucy | Emma Sofia Fazzuoli | Composer | |
| 2023 | Muse | Kate Marin Davis | Composer |
| Woman Meets Girl | Murry Peeters | Composer |