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As a comedian, actor, and writer, Alex Edelman is known for his TV writing, his love of black-and-white cookies, and his solo shows—all created in collaboration with director Adam Brace and all award-winning, sell-out hits in London’s West End and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Edelman made his Broadway debut with Just for Us in 2023, after sold-out runs Off-Broadway (Obie Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), in Washington, D.C., Boston (his hometown), Melbourne, Edinburgh (Herald Angel Award), London and more. He’s now touring the U.S. with the show, which was also filmed for an upcoming HBO special. Edelman’s first solo show, Millennial, won the 2014 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, the first American show to do so since 1997. He has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Conan. He is also the creator of Peer Group—a show about young people—on BBC Radio 4. At the start of the pandemic, he served as the head writer and executive producer of Saturday Night Seder, a star-studded 70-minute special posted on YouTube that has so far raised $3.5 million for the CDC Foundation (COVID-19) Emergency Response Fund.

As Associate Director at Soho Theatre, London, Adam Brace worked across comedy, theatre, and performance art, and in roles spanning dramaturg, director, and writer. In comedy, he developed a varied range of work including eight Edinburgh Comedy Award–nominated shows, two Herald Angel Award–winners, two nominees for the Melbourne Barry Award, and two Southbank Sky Arts Awards. Directing credits include all of Alex Edelman’s shows, most recently Just for Us (2023 Obie Award winner, 2022 Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Nominee); Liz Kingman’s One Woman Show and Leo Reich’s Literally Who Cares?! Off-Broadway; Haley McGee’s Age is a Feeling (Fringe First 2022, Soho Theatre); and all of Sh!t Theatre’s multi-award-winning international shows. Other credits include Ahir Shah’s Max special Dots and Creative Supervisor on two series of Soho Theatre Live on Amazon Prime. Previously, he was a playwright and was produced by Almeida Theatre, The National Theatre, and The Donmar Warehouse; his plays are published by Faber and Faber.