Elena Lyubarskaya

Elena Lyubarskaya is a screenwriter, producer, and creator based in Berlin. She writes television, develops original IP, and founded The Difference Machine.

Her credits include Pauline (Disney+, Grimme Preis-nominated), City of Blood (Disney+), and Frankfurter Files (ZDF). She graduated from Serial Eyes, the premium European TV writing program at DFFB Berlin, and trained in experimental theatre under Boris Yukhananov at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre in Moscow.

That theatre training is where her approach to narrative systems began. Yukhananov's work treated storytelling as a live system: structures that generate narrative in real time, responding to what's happening in the room. Years later, Elena recognized the same principles at work in series architecture, in interactive narrative, in AI-driven experience. The methodology she built draws from all of it.

She has won the SteinbrennerMuller Award at Seriesly Berlin, the Immersive Tech Week Award at Stereopsia, and been selected for CPH:LAB and CPH:FORUM (ONX Studio Award, with Onassis Foundation). She develops projects across formats, from animated sitcom to AI-powered immersive experience.

She founded The Difference Machine to make a difference in how stories are told — because she believes the craft has to lead that change, not follow it.

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