Alex Edelman

Alex Edelman

American comedian nominated for best show in the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards, four years after scooping best newcomer. He was also nominated for the Barry Award at the 2018 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Alex Edelman’s Just For Us returns to London

Following a hit New York season

Alex Edelman’s Just For Us is returning to London after its hugely successful off-Broadway run in New York.

The show debuted in the UK at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe and is built primarily around his decision, as a Jewish comic, to go undercover and crash a gathering of White Nationalists.

It will now be running at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London Bridge from January 11 to 26, after completed a twice-extended run at New York’s Greenwich House Theater this month. That followed two seasons at other Manhattan venues this year.

Mike Birbiglia produced the show in the US and its status as a Hot Ticket attracted celebrities such as Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Ben Stiller, Billy Crystal and Sarah Jessica Parker to the audience.

Edelman told the New York Theatre Guide: ‘Everyone who’s come has had words of encouragement. Billy Crystal offered two notes, and Steve Martin offered a tag, and Seinfeld offered a note. Comedians are irrepressible in their nature to give constructive advice and feedback.'

‘That’s been a wonderful thing because I feel like, even though it’s a solo show, it’s been built by so many great little ideas from other people who have come to see it. Now, almost every single chunk of the show has been thoroughly discussed with someone I admire.’

That includes the show’s director, Adam Brace, Soho Theatre’s artistic director, with whom he has been collaborating  since 2014. Brace will also direct the new London run

Just For Us has been announced as Menier’s autumn 2022/spring 2023 season alongside the world premiere of The Sex Party, the new play from Terry Johnson, whose previous credits include the Carry On spoof  Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick.

Tickets will be on sale soon.

• Read our review of Just For Us at the 2018 Melbourne International Comedy Festival here.

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Published: 26 Sep 2022

Past Shows

Edinburgh Fringe 2014

Alex Edelman: Millennial


Edinburgh Fringe 2018

Alex Edelman: Just for Us


Edinburgh Fringe 2023

Alex Edelman: JUST FOR US


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