Earl Newton is an award-winning writer/director living in Los Angeles. He is best known as the creator of the Nebula-nominated television series Stranger Things.

Newton started directing in college theater. He segued into television in his early 20s, first with commercials and industrials, and later as a producer for a sports network. In 2007, he started Stranger Things, a modern-day science fiction anthology series (“Twilight Zone for the Internet generation”). The popularity of the program lead him to collaborate with New York Times best-sellers and genre luminaries like Scott Sigler and Gary Braunbeck. In 2008, Illusion TV picked up Stranger Things for television distribution.

Creatively, Newton’s work tends to use fantastic ideas to revel in the realistic. It’s been described as “a stubbornly-innocent search for truth, steeped in gallows’ humor.”

At one point or another, Newton has worked in nearly every field of film production, a fact that enables him to know in advance how much the crew will hate him before a single frame is shot.