RAQUEL STERN is a US-born director and screenwriter based in Berlin. She is writing an episode of a historical thriller helmed by Ashley Pharoah, in development with ZDF for Urban Myth Films. She wrote and co-directed SCHATTENMORD, an original 90-minute police thriller (UFA Fiction/ARD Degeto) broadcasting on December 2nd 2025. She was a director and writer on MADE IN GERMANY (Studio Zentral/ARD), which was named one of the best German series of 2024 by newspaper “Die Zeit”. Raquel directed the complete first season of dance series EVEN CLOSER – HAUTNAH (UFA Serial Drama/RTL+) and eight episodes of teen series SCHLOSS EINSTEIN (Saxonia Media/KiKA). She has worked in writers rooms on projects developed by Kinescope Film, Turbokultur, UFA Fiction, Neue Super, and Bon Voyage with Sky Deutschland.

For her B.F.A. Raquel studied film directing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She also holds an M.F.A. in screenwriting and dramaturgy, with a concentration in serial writing, from Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. In 2022, she was selected to participate in The Writers Lab, a prestigious scriptwriting lab supported by Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman that fights sexism and ageism in TV and film.