Julia Newman

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.

Early Life and Education 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.

Julia Newman was exposed to film composing at an early age, and visited the recording studio named after her grandfather as a child. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, and a Masters Degree from Screen Scoring program at the USC Thornton School of Music in 2020. While at USC, Newman begin scoring short films, before transitioning to feature films and television work. With her father, Thomas Newman, she composed the score for Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, the first of her collaborations with showrunner Ryan Murphy. 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).

Film and television career

Television YearTitleDirector Notes 2020 Coupled Emma Sofia Fazzuoli Web series (6 episodes) 2024 Feud: 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)

Films YearTitleDirector 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

Short Films YearTitleDirector 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