Tom Stern is an American actor, director, writer, and producer from New York.

Stern attended film school at New York University in the mid-80s, where he met Alex Winter. The two collaborated on a number of 16mm short films and both graduated with honors. In 1987, the two moved out to Hollywood and worked on a number of short films and music videos. In 1989, after Winter had become a star from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Stern, Winter, and fellow writer Tim Burns were hired to develop "The Idiot Box", a sketch comedy show for MTV.

Immediately following The Idiot Box, the trio wrote and directed the 1993 film Freaked, which was a major box office flop but later developed a strong cult following on video. Stern didn't work much afterwards until 1997, when he and Burns wrote the screenplay to An American Werewolf in Paris, the sequel to the 1981 horror classic. Stern and Burns have also collaborated on "The Chimp Channel" and "Monkey-ed Movies".

Since then, he has often worked closely with Jimmy Kimmel, having written, directed, and produced several episodes of shows off of Kimmel's production company Jackhole Productions, including The Man Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Crank Yankers. Stern has also worked as a writer on Trey Parker and Matt Stone's presidential parody, That's My Bush!, as a director and writer on The Andy Milonakis Show, and was the creator of the Comedy Central travel show parody Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust.

Currently, Stern is busy writing and directing another show he's created, Adult Swim's Saul of the Molemen, which features Alex Winter as a cast member.

Attended film school at New York University with Alex Winter (I); the two became good friends, and collaborated on several projects including Freaked (1993).