Who Is Maya Hawke’s Boyfriend? All About Christian Lee Hutson

Maya Hawke and her boyfriend, Christian Lee Hutson, are partners in life and in work.

The Stranger Things star and Hutson, who have been linked since 2023, frequently team up on music projects. The pair collaborated on Hawke’s second studio album, Moss, and her most recent album, Chaos Angel, which was released in May 2024.

Hawke also lent her voice to a song on Hutson’s album Paradise Pop. 10 and joined him for a few stops on the accompanying tour, which happened in early 2025.

“[Hutson] has been so encouraging to me as a musician, helping me to make the transition from a being a poet in a band to sort of being a musician,” Hawke told Variety in June 2024.

So, who is Maya Hawke’s boyfriend? Here’s everything to know about Christian Lee Huston and his relationship with the musician.

He’s a musician

Hutson is a singer, songwriter and guitarist best known for his blend of folk, Americana and country music. He’s released three studio albums: Beginners (2020), Quitters (2022) and Paradise Pop. 10 (2024), all of which were co-produced by his longtime collaborator, Phoebe Bridgers.

He and Bridgers met through her guitarist, Harrison Whitford, and quickly formed a creative partnership, per Guitar.com.

“I felt so understood,” he said while speaking to The Line of Best Fit in September 2024. “Everyone else I worked with up until that point was like: ‘Yeah, you’re pretty good, but you’re not good enough. We’ve gotta figure out some kind of way that you’re not too weird.’ Phoebe was the first person that made me feel like I didn’t have to do anything other than go into the room and play the song.”

The “Lose This Number” singer has worked with several other famous artists, including Conor Oberst, Bridgers’ band Boygenius and Katy Kirby, among others.

He’s from California

Hutson was born in Kansas City, Mo., but was raised in Los Angeles. As a kid, he aspired to be an author, as he explained in his interview with The Line of Best Fit.

“I was an old man as a child,” he jokingly told the outlet. “My parents asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up and I was like: ‘I would like to write novels and short fiction.’ ”

After receiving a guitar as a gift at age 12, he found a new outlet for his love of storytelling.

“By the time I was 13 years old, I was like, ‘I don’t know if I could be a novelist now, but I like music,’ ” he continued. “Somebody showed me Bob Dylan, and then Joni Mitchell, and then Elliott Smith, and those things just made me realise that I could — with just the same three chords — write whatever I wanted to.”

Hawke and Hutson were first linked in December 2023

Hawke and Hutson were first romantically linked in December 2023, when they were photographed sharing a kiss in New York City by The Daily Mail.

The pair spent the day together, strolled through the city and stopped at a jewelry store, where Hawke was photographed admiring a piece of jewelry.

They made their relationship red carpet official in April 2025

The couple made their red carpet debut on April 14, 2025, at the opening night of Broadway’s John Proctor Is the Villain, which starred Sadie Sink, Hawke’s Stranger Things costar.

Hawke wore a pleated skirt, a leather trench coat and Prada loafers for the occasion, while Hutson donned an all-denim outfit paired with a brown turtleneck and white Converse sneakers.

Several other Stranger Things cast members attended the performance at N.Y.C.’s Booth Theatre to show their support for Sink, including Natalia Dyer, Gaten Matarazzo and Finn Wolfhard.

They were friends for years before they dated

Hawke and Hutson kept their relationship platonic for four years before they took their connection to the next level. While appearing on the Zach Sang Show in June 2024, Hawke said she “cannot recommend” dating a friend enough.

“It’s the best,” she said. “They know you, they understand that you are a person and a human being who has dated other people … not just a piece of paper for them to project their image of a perfect girlfriend onto.”

Hawke and Hutson work together on music

The pair first collaborated together on Hawke’s sophomore album, Moss, which was released in September 2022. Hutson co-wrote several songs on the album, including “Backup Plan,” “Hiatus” and “Sweet Tooth.”

While speaking to Rolling Stone that month, Hawke explained that Hutson got involved with the project through their mutual friend Ben Lazar Davis, who co-produced the album.

“It was instant chemistry between the two of us,” she said. “He wrote exactly what I heard in my head, but better. His music is the music that I would dream of making myself. He’s a brilliant person.”

Hawke reunited with Hutson for her third studio album, Chaos Angel, with Hutson serving as co-producer.

Around the same time, the “Mermaid Bar” singer contributed vocals to Hutson’s third studio album, Paradise Pop 10, and co-wrote several tracks.

They support each other on social media

Hawke and Hutson frequently praise each other work on social media. To mark the release of Chaos Angel in May 2024, Hutson shared several photos and videos on Instagram from their time working on the album.

“This record means so much to me and working on it radically changed my life,” he wrote.

He also included a sweet shout-out to Hawke, adding, “Thank you to Maya, an unstoppable force and truly one of the only people I’ve ever met, with the courage to pull the deepest and darkest from within herself out into the light, to hold it there, really examine it, and choose to love it, chaos and all.”

A few months later, Hawke celebrated the release of Hutson’s album, captioning a series of photos of the two of them, “I am lucky enough to know this guy @christianleehutson he is a poet musical genius who is announcing his third and best album ever Paradise Pop. 10.”

She continued, “I was lucky enough to get to write with him on some of this incredible music and the first song After Hours is out now an streaming where ever you stream.”