Kyle Newman

Kyle Newman (born March 16, 1976) is an American filmmaker, actor and New York Times bestselling, Hugo Award-nominated author.

He is known for directing Fanboys, a Star Wars-themed comedy starring Kristen Bell and Seth Rogen, Barely Lethal starring Hailee Steinfeld and Samuel L. Jackson for A24, 1Up, a comedy set in the world of competitive esports starring Ruby Rose, for Lionsgate and Prime Video, and the forthcoming "Untitled Dungeons & Dragons documentary" exploring the game's fifty-year history for Hasbro.

Newman, is an honors graduate of New York University's School of Film/TV and the receipt of the Martin Scorsese Award for "Excellence in Directing".

Newman has directed music videos for artists including Taylor Swift ("Style") ("Clean"), Lana Del Rey ("Summertime Sadness") and Katy Perry, and created the video content for Taylor Swift's The 1989 World Tour.

In 1998, Newman's short film Bitten by Love won the Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award while he was a student at New York University.

In March 2006, while working on the set of Fanboys, he met actress and former model Jaime King.

Newman proposed in spring 2007, and the two married on November 23, 2007 in an "intimate and relaxed" ceremony in Los Angeles at Greystone Park and Manor, where Newman had proposed.

Their first son was born on October 6, 2013.

In February 2015, it was announced King was pregnant with the couple's second child.

King gave birth to their second son on July 16, 2015.

Taylor Swift is his godmother.

In 2016, Newman produced Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made, a documentary about three teenagers who set out to recreate Steven Spielberg's classic Raiders of the Lost Ark shot-for-shot in 1982, which was distributed by Drafthouse Films.

He reteamed with director Jeremy Coon and Fanboys scribe Adam F. Goldberg to produce A Disturbance in the Force, a documentary about the making of The Star Wars Holiday Special.

He is the co-creator, co-story writer of the Netflix Original animated feature film Gnome Alone.

Newman also Executive Produced Happily (film) alongside Jack Black.

As a filmmaker, he has written and/or directed for clients including Microsoft, Interscope Records, Starz Entertainment, The Coca-Cola Company, Starwars.com, Entertainment Weekly, Big Machine Records, Pacific Life Insurance, Games For Windows, Hasbro, Titan Publishing, Universal Republic Records, BuzzFeed, Saturday Group, Wizards of the Coast, Twentieth Century Fox, Endemol Shine, A24 Films, AwesomenessTV, Hooters of America and Lucasfilm, Ltd.

2018 saw the release of his first book Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana: A Visual History via Ten Speed Press/ Penguin Random House in association with Wizards of the Coast.

It received nominations for a Locus Award, a Diana Jones Award, and a Hugo Award.

Newman's second book Heroes' Feast: The Official Dungeons & Dragons Cookbook published in October 2020 by Ten Speed Press/ Penguin Random House in association with Wizards of the Coast, reunited the author team and became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a cooking show titled Heroes' Feast for Hasbro.

In 2023, sequels to both books were published by Ten Speed Press/ Penguin Random House.

Dungeons & Dragons Lore & Legends tells the story of D&Ds 5th Edition and Heroes' Feast: Flavors of the Multiverse is the planet-hopping follow-up cookbook.

In May 2020, King filed for divorce from Newman after 13 years of marriage.

King also filed a domestic violence prevention petition and was granted a temporary restraining order against Newman which was subsequently dismissed.

Kyle's brother, Kevin Newman, is a character designer for The Simpsons.

Kyle, born in New Jersey, is a devout supporter of Arsenal Football Club in England.

On February 17, 2021, a son, Etienne Noel Newman, was born to Newman and his partner, singer-songwriter Cyn.

On August 23, 2023, Newman announced on Twitter that Cyn gave birth to their second child, a daughter named Beatrix Rose Newman.