Adam Brace, the British playwright and director who was set to make his Broadway debut this summer with longtime collaborator Alex Edelman, died Saturday following a short illness. He was 43.<\/p>\n

The news comes less than a month after the announcement that Brace and Obie Award-winning writer and performer Edelman would bring the award-winning solo show Just For Us <\/em>to Broadway. The limited engagement – Edelman’s first appearance on Broadway – is scheduled to begin previews at the Hudson Theatre on Thursday, June 22, with an opening night set for Monday, June 26. The show will run through Saturday, August 19.<\/p>\n

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Just For Us<\/em> had previously been staged to considerable acclaim Off Broadway and in London, Edinburgh, Boston and other cities.<\/p>\n

“He was my closest collaborator for more than a decade, but more importantly, he was one of my closest friends,” Edelman said in a statement posted on Twitter. “I don’t feel ready to acknowledge the magnitude of this loss, but I already feel it.”<\/p>\n

Edelman went on to write that Brace directed all three of his solo shows including Just For U<\/em>s. “Adam’s laugh was distinctive and deep and my favorite sound,” Edelman wrote. “I sought it out again and again.”<\/p>\n

Brace worked as the Associate Director of London’s Soho Theatre since 2016. His plays include the full-length productions Stovepipe <\/em>and They Drink it in the Congo<\/em>, as well as the short Midnight Your Time<\/em>. In addition to Edelman’s shows, Brace directed Liz Kingman’s One-Woman Show<\/em>, Leo Reich’s Literally Who Cares?!<\/em>, and the Edinburgh Fringe premiere of Age Is a Feeling<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“He worked with some of the world’s finest comics and theatremakers,” Edelman wrote.<\/p>\n

The Broadway run of Just For Us<\/em> was announced on April 5 by producers Jenny Gersten, Rachel Sussman, and Seaview, with Mike Birbiglia. The show was originally produced Off Broadway by Birbiglia in association with Mike Lavoie, Carlee Briglia and Joseph Birbiglia.<\/p>\n

The show’s synopsis: “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<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Edelman’s first of three solo shows directed by Brace, Millennial<\/em>, won the 2014 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, and Just For Us<\/em> received a special Obie citation this year for its Off Broadway run. Just For Us <\/em>will be the Hudson Theatre’s tenant between A Doll’s House<\/em> with Jessica Chastain, which runs thorough June 10, and the Merrily We Roll Along<\/em> revival starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez, which arrives Sept. 19.<\/p>\n

“I was lucky to spend so much time with him,” wrote Edelman, “especially over the last year and a half, and I am distraught at the prospect of doing the show without him on Broadway. If I’m being honest, I’m not sure what kind of performer – and person – I’m going be without him. I am befeft.”<\/p>\n

Information on survivors was not immediately available, but according to Edelman Brace is survived by his partner Becca and other family. <\/p>\n

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