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 for 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.