Julia Newman

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 of 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 Feud: 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]