she/her

Talent Agent
WME
Craig Kestel

Manager
Untitled Entertainment
Jeffrey Silver

Legal Representation
Jackoway Austen Tyreman
Jeff Hynick

Olivia Newman is an award-winning director and writer known for her work across film and television. Newman’s latest feature, REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, which she co-wrote and directed for Netflix, was nominated for three Emmy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress. Adapted from the New York Times bestselling novel, the film stars Sally Field, Lewis Pullman, and Alfred Molina.

Newman previously directed WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (2022), the film adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel for Sony, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, David Strathairn, and Harris Dickinson. The film was a global box office success, grossing over $140 million worldwide.

Prior to that, Newman wrote and directed her debut feature, FIRST MATCH, starring Elvire Emanuelle, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Colman Domingo, and Jharrel Jerome. The film premiered at SXSW in 2018, where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature, and was acquired and distributed by Netflix.

In television, Newman directed the pilot and served as co-executive producer on the limited series THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME for Apple TV+ and 20th Century Studios, starring Jennifer Garner and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. She has also directed episodes of FBI, CHICAGO FIRE, CHICAGO PD and DARE ME.

Newman is an alum of the Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs and received her MFA in Film from Columbia University.