Stuart Newman

Audio Post-Production, Sound Designer, Sound Editor, Sound Mixer and Screenwriter

London, England

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About Stuart

Stuart Newman is a Broadcast audio engineer and producer with over 20 years Broadcast experience, including 17 years operation and support for Pro Tools.

After an anarchic teenage he used his punk rock connections to publish underground music magazine Control! before hooking up with cult video producers Jettisoundz/Visionary to produce documentaries with bands such as The Exploited and The Cockney Rejects.

Graveyard editing shifts with no technical support meant his initial engineering skills were learned by crawling under desks and behind racks to re-seat cables and reset servers.

After moving Control! to the new fangled internet and a stint running a college TV and radio station, he joined newly launched proto-DTT flagship, OnDigital/ITV Digital, where he was submersed into formal broadcast engineer training and climbed to Network Supervisor before a bum football deal sent the station into oblivion!

From the ashes of ITV-D came a connection which saw him join former Sky creative head, Bruce Dunlop's agency, BDA Creative, as a junior audio engineer.

In 2003, after a year of intense Pro Tools training, he took over BDA's Sparrowhawk Media account delivering the Hallmark channel to 10 International territories in 15 languages. In at the deep end indeed. Promos, long form, adverts, radio shows and ident sound design were abundant in a 10 year tenure.

2006 saw two landmarks: The first was producing the debut Underclass UK album, a band in hiatus from his teenage; the second saw Stuart enter long term recovery from alcoholism.

Live music recordings and videos were very much a part of Stuart's recreation around this time with a resident recordist spot at both Dagenham & Redbridge FC and East London's BH2 club, with over 100 acts filmed and recorded for the Punk Lives Live archive. During this time, Stuart moved Underclass UK from the studio to the stage with their debut gig opening for Punk legends the UK Subs.

2012 saw a move to NBC Universal to produce on-air promotions audio for Universal.tv, Syfy Channel, E! Entertainment network, Diva Channel, Movies 24 and Studio Universal across 9 territories in 8 languages.

2015 saw a collaboration with former Fits frontman and hypnotherapist, Mick Crudge, to produce the EnTrance self-help audio library, a behemoth project, comprising of over 1000+ hours of guided holistic content, and a yet to be produced corporate mind-gym app.
2016 saw Underclass UK record their 5th album, with the band upping the stakes on the live front reaching almost 100 gigs in every cesspit and toilet around the M25, venturing out to sample alternative khazi's from Morecambe to Bournemouth via Norwich, Oldham and even sunny Ramsgate, before going back on hiatus in 2018.

As well as hooking up with Lost-Data productions to cut mini-docs for their StreetPunk The Series collection (based on Newman's own viral doc, StreetPunk The Movie - IMDB) 2018 saw Stuart complete his first Screenplay, Consumed, (and begin looking for production options) with a second following not far behind....

Unique traits: Working class background gives grass roots level outlook. Working life experience allows all level outlook.

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How's Your Father? Drama Latch key runaway, Calvin Smith trades one hell for another as he hits the big city and becomes trapped in an ever contracting personal nightmare in How's Your Father?
CHAOS Music ⋄ Drama An estranged Rock & Roll band revisit the long buried past.
Punk Snot Dead Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent ⋄ Biography England, 1981: A disillusioned teenage punk runs the street gang gauntlet whilst trying to find his tribe in this traumatic, rite-of-passage road movie.