Lived in Zermatt, Switzerland at the age of fifteen.
Danced at New York City Center Theater at the age of ten.
Performed (danced) at the Metropolitan Opera House at New York's Lincoln Center at the age of eight.
She graduated from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut with a Bachelor's degree and earned a Master's degree in film production from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Daughter of Patricia Vardin Vris and Howard
H. Newman of New York City.
independent film director in New York City (May 2011)