[2][3][4][5] She lent her voice to many radio and TV projects while writing and performing her original music as a solo recording artist in Los Angeles CA, Nashville TN and Dallas, Texas.

In 2015 Newark appeared in the live-action feature film adaptation on Jem and the Holograms directed by Jon M. Chu.

Newark was also cast as the voice of a young Peter Pan's mother in Steven Spielberg feature film Hook as well as doing countless on camera and voice-over TV and radio commercials.

In 2012 she was invited to contribute two characters to the Festival favorite animated short Pound Dogs, created by Mike Salva.

She was cast in the title role in the United States Navy band production of the musical Annie in Washington DC.

Newark recorded the song "In Your Eyes" for the 1986 anime film Project A-ko[10][11] and worked with Richie Zito and Joey Carbone and was hired to sing multiple songs on the soundtrack for the movie Crazy Six starring Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds, Mario Van Peebles.

And was one of 15 budding songwriters accepted into the coveted Lester Sill Ascap songwriting workshop where she met writer producer and long time collaborator composer Mike Reagan[12] She and Mike worked together through the late 1990s writing original music performing live and contributing vocals for various PlayStation games.

[14][15] Songs from the album have been featured in numerous television programs including Smallville, Reba, Life is Wild, and Gossip Girl, America's Next Top Model, as well as MTV's Laguna Beach, Punk'd, and My Super Sweet 16.

Newark composed the melodies for Saravia's poetry that was featured throughout the film and she performed one of the songs live in the movie.