The Last Seder
Based on her hit play, Jennifer Maisel’s screenplay, The Last Seder, won Showtime’s Tony Cox Award. Rosalind Productions produced the play Off-Broadway in 2012-13 and plans to begin shooting the feature film adaptation in 2026. The four Price sisters reunite for their final Passover in the family home before their exhausted mother sells the house and their once-charismatic father is put in a facility due to Alzheimer’s. Over the course of the holiday, the Prices navigate exposed secrets, unexpected connections and long-simmering confrontations, within their nuclear family and with their partners. Blending humor and emotional depth, the story offers a timeless exploration of love, loss, and generational renewal, seen through the lens of a Long Island Jewish family. In the vein of beloved American comedies about tradition and togetherness (The Farewell, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Family Stone), The Last Seder delivers rich cultural specificity with broad, universal resonance.
Written by Jennifer Maisel
Directed by Arlene Nelson
Produced by Rosalind Productions
In Pre-Production, 2026
Creative Team
ARLENE NELSON (Director)
Director and Emmy-nominated cinematographer Arlene Nelson’s (ASC, DGA) body of work includes the HBO Original series Angel City, chronicling the inaugural season of Angel City FC, founded by Natalie Portman, Eva Longoria, Mia Hamm, Becky G, and Serena Williams. She directed the Apple TV+ Gutsy episode “Mothers and Daughters” with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, and co-directed A&E’s Secrets of Playboy, winner of the Critics Choice Real TV Award for Best Crime/Justice Show. Nelson series-directed and served as lead cinematographer on Ava DuVernay’s Home Sweet Home. Nelson made her HBO directorial debut with the award-winning trilogy Naked States (Discovery Award for Best Documentary, AFI Film Festival), Naked World, and Positively Naked. As a cinematographer, she has collaborated with major studios and iconic directors including Christopher Guest, and Academy Award winners Agnes Varda, Louie Psihoyos, Paola Di Florio, and Morgan Neville. Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for Nevilles Troubadours featuring Carole King and James Taylor. She collaborated on episodes with Neville of the influential series Ugly Delicious with David Chang. arlenenelsondirects.com
JENNIFER MAISEL
(Written by, based on her original play)
Jennifer Maisel is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced
nationally and internationally. Film: Lost Boy (starring Virginia Madsen and Sosie Bacon), The Assault, To Have and To Hold, and Tempting Fate. She has developed pilots and films with Lucky Monkey Productions, Bunim-Murry, Super-Deluxe, Hallmark, Lifetime, Ineffable, Stun Media, Momentum TV ,
Mar Vista and Disney, among others. Her plays include Provenance, Eight Nights, Out of Orbit, There of Here, Yellow Wallpaper, 2.0-2020 and @thespeedofJake and have been workshopped and honored by Sundance, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Kennedy Center, the Ovation Awards, Jewish Plays Project, the Asolo Theatre, the Woodward/Newman and PENWest Literary Awards. The Last Seder, now being developed as a feature film with Rosalind Productions, had a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run (Rosalind Productions) with productions around the world. (Published by Dramatists Play Service).​ jennifermaisel.com
MATHILDE DRATWA
(Additional Material by)
Mathilde Dratwa has developed feature films and TV projects for Netflix, FX, Chernin Entertainment, Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap, Endeavor, Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films, Red Wagon, Condé Nast, Picturestart, Sony/TriStar, and Wiip. Her work has attracted attachments from Natasha Lyonne, Margo
Martindale, and Julianne Nicholson. She also writes as part of a team with director Gillian Robespierre. In theater, Mathilde’s plays include Esther Perel Ruined My Life (IAMA Theatre Company), Dirty Laundry (WP Theater, Audible; Henley Rose Award, Kernodle Award), Milk & Gall (Theatre503, London), and A Play about David Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey Weinstein. Her work has been developed or presented by Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Playwrights’ Center, Roundabout Theatre Company, Rattlestick, Berkshire Theatre Group, American Players Theatre, LAByrinth Theater Company, Cape Cod Theatre Project, The Old Globe and the Young Vic. IMDB​
Cast Attached
ALYSIA REINER (Claire)
SAG award winning Alysia Reiner is best known as Fig on 7 seasons of Orange Is the New Black, she also originated Agent Sadie Deever in the 2023 Emmy & Critics Choice Award–winning Ms. Marvel. She starred for 5 seasons as Sunny on Better Things, 2 seasons as Kiki on The Deuce, and 2 seasons as Kathryn in Shining Vale with Courteney Cox -both on HBO, and now recurs in seasons 2 & 3 on Netflix’s hit political thriller The Diplomat. Recent films include The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Cannes, 2025 Spirit award nominee), Our Bodies and Other Shames, and Transcendent. Other career highlights include Oscar-winning Sideways, an Emmy-winning episode of Broad City, going head to head with Viola Davis on How To Get Away with Murder, and many many more. IMDB
ABIGAIL ROSE SOLOMON (Julia)
Abigail Rose Solomon most recently worked with Jennifer Lopez on the Netflix thriller The Last Mrs. Parrish, directed by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis. She is featured in Mouse, opposite CBE Sophie Okonedo, premiering at Berlin International Film Festival 2026, as well as Lilly, portraying "Senator Lisa Murkowski" opposite Patricia Clarkson, which enjoyed a theatrical release before landing on Netflix. Her
work this year also includes a master acting class with Emmy Award winner Joan Darling, captured in the documentary None of This Matters. Abigail has also appeared with Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and in the acclaimed series Sex & the City, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Three Women, Odd Mom Out, and Days of Our Lives. She has shared stage and screen with legendary actors, such as two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Hyde Pierce, Jerry Orbach, and Barbara Hershey. A longtime theatre artist, she has worked with Manhattan Theatre Club, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare & Co, and several other leading regional and Off-Broadway companies. AbigailRoseSolomon.com