The Orange at the Seder

Jacob Combs is a queer Jewish director, writer, producer, and composer based in Los Angeles. Most recently, he directed THE ORANGE AT THE SEDER, which premiered at the LA Shorts International Film Festival. He was part of the writers’ room for the Netflix comedy BLOCKBUSTER, and is developing a half-hour dramedy project with showrunners Vanessa Ramos and Jackie Clarke, as well as Bridger Winegar.

Previously, Jacob spent a 6-year stint at Pixar in a variety of writing, development and production roles. He wrote on an untitled feature in development and was part of the writers’ room for DREAM PRODUCTIONS, an upcoming original episodic series. He also wrote several episodes of the Emmy-nominated Disney+ documentary series INSIDE PIXAR.

In addition to his animation work, Jacob wrote the screenplay for the live-action short film MESSRS., which won Pixar’s AfterWORK screenplay competition. Jacob’s first short as writer/director, WITHOUT, showed at several festivals in 2019 and 2020. Last fall, he developed his feature screenplay MAX AND VIVIAN GET MITZVAH’D at the Stowe Story Labs. His feature screenplay PALISADE PEACHES was developed at the 2022 Nostos Screenwriting Retreat in Arezzo, Italy and was a second round candidate for the 2023 Sundance Development Track.

A lifelong theater nerd, Jacob wrote the music & lyrics for HERSHEL AND THE HANUKKAH GOBLINS (based on the beloved children’s book by Eric Kimmel), which has been produced annually since 2018 by Chicago’s Strawdog Theatre.