Alex Edelman: Just For Us in a special one-night Benefit Show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Alex Edelman a hilarious American Orthodox Jewish Comedian, is doing a special one-off benefit performance of his award-winning show JUST FOR US at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in honor of the show’s late director, Adam Brace.

In the wake of a string of anti-Semitic rhetoric pointed in his direction online, standup comic Edelman decides to go straight to the source; specifically, Queens, where he covertly attends a meeting of White Nationalists and comes face-to-face with the people behind the keyboards. What happens next forms the backbone of the shockingly relevant, utterly hilarious, and only moderately perspirant stories that comprise Just For Us.

Just for Us has performed to acclaimed runs in London, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Boston, and Washington D.C., as well as a six-time extended off-Broadway engagement across three venues in New York City.

‘My collaboration with Adam started at the Fringe in 2012. Our first show together in 2014 gave me the ability to be a comedian. And I think it’s appropriate that, after such a long journey, this show should have an Edinburgh goodbye – in his honor – at the Festival that was Adam’s favorite place. And mine.’

Alex Edelman

In May this year it was announced with deep sadness director Adam Brace had died following a short illness at the age of 43. Adam was a director (including all of Alex Edelman’s shows), co-creator, dramaturg, script editor and writer and Associate Director of Soho Theatre. A festival staple, Adam’s presence is very much missed at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival by family, friends, colleagues and collaborators.

Sat 26 Aug 23
Pleasance Grand, Edinburgh
All profits from the show will go to the Adam Brace Award