Rachael Night Mwendwa is a screenwriter and creator working across feature film and television, with a slate of original thrillers, dramas, speculative projects and genre-driven stories. She studied psychology and writes character-driven stories built around tension, complex relationships and high-concept premises.
"Every city deserves a monster."
An assassin trained to kill on a beat learns that the world has turned his madness into a costume, and that the only way to beat the men who wrote his script is to lose his place.
"Some games are not played for money."
A legendary gambler who buried her past behind the bar of a quiet coastal town is dragged back to the table when a criminal mastermind kidnaps her closest friend — forcing her to play five escalating games for her freedom, and discover that winning might cost her exactly what losing once did.
"Some truths should stay hidden."
When a professional "alibi architect" is hired to prove her own client's airtight alibi is a lie, she uncovers a global criminal network built by her father — and a shadow figure, known only as The Witness, who has spent twelve years grooming her to become its next owner.
"Some feelings can't be optimized."
In a city where every citizen's happiness is manufactured and monitored, a girl who cannot feel anything teams up with a broken service android learning to feel for the first time to expose the machine that has been lying to everyone — including her.
"Blood. Money. Lies. Atlanta."
When a retired FBI agent turns up dead in the pool at Atlanta's most powerful Black family's biggest party, the forensic accountant investigating that family's fortune discovers the case is really about her own father — and the man she's falling for is the one person who could bury her along with the truth.
Created by Rachael Night Mwendwa.
"Four women. One crown. No escape."
Four exceptional women — a dancer, a brawler, a ballerina, a surgeon — are separately abducted and delivered to The Court: a secret society that trades in human talent, bought and displayed like art. They were chosen for their defiance. That was The Court's first mistake.
Created & Written by Rachael Night Mwendwa.
"The math doesn't justify the method."
A world-class fashion designer and assassin is forced to train her volatile ex-lover — and together, they decide to take over the murder syndicate that owns them.
Rachael started writing at eighteen — scenes scribbled in the margins of psychology lectures, long before there was a slate to speak of. That instinct never left. It just got sharper. Seven original projects later, across feature film and television, the throughline is still the same: character first, plot second, tension always.
She studied Psychology before turning to screenwriting full-time, and it shows — in the pathology of her villains, the precision of her damaged heroines, and a refusal to let a character act just because the plot needs them to. Every script is a deliberate improvement on the one before it: tighter structure, harder truths, more confident control of tone.
| Title | Format | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Carnival of Ashes | Feature Film | 100 pp. |
| House of Odds | Feature Film | 120 pp. |
| The Alibi Club | Feature Film | 117 pp. |
| Pale Imitation | Feature Film | 112 pp. |
| Shadows & Diamonds | Limited Series | 12 eps. × 45 min |
| The Crimson Crown | TV Drama Series | S1, 6 eps. |
| Velvet & Venom | Feature Film | 108 pp. |
Scripts, full loglines, pitch deck, show bible, and additional materials available on request.