Joshua A.C. Newman is an American role-playing game designer.
Newman is the designer of the Indie role-playing games Under the Bed (2005), (2006), Beowulf (2008), Shock: Human Contact (2010), and The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze (2016).
In 2012, Joshua A.C. Newman worked with Vincent Baker on a new version of the Mechaton rules as Mobile Frame Zero 001: Rapid Attack (2012), and Newman was able to use this for a successful Kickstarter. Rapid Attack was followed by Mobile Frame Zero 002: Intercept Orbit, a carrier-based spaceship battle game in the same universe.
Newman has also contributed to the book design of several other indie roleplaying games.