Alex Edelman will receive a Special Tony Award for ‘Just For Us’

He told the JC last year that Just For Us, which is currently streaming on HBO MAX, is not about antisemitism.

“Antisemitism is so big, you can’t possibly get your arms around anything other than a corner of it,” he said. “The show is about one Jew’s identity when he is so far removed from his natural habitat that he can see its hard edges.”

However, he did say that the topic has “become more fashionable” since he started writing the show in 2018.

He said: “You know, to me antisemitism is like the weather. Do I feel like I’ve gotten something good out of it? It is just a song that never stops playing.”

Jason Laks, interim president of the Broadway League, said, “Alex Edelman had an exemplary debut in Just For Us, a show that was as moving as it was hilarious and spoke to the power of communication, identity and empathy at a time when it is needed more than ever.”

Edelman appears in Jerry Seinfeld’s film Unfrosted, out on Netflix on Friday, and is developing a movie with A24. He has been included in TIME 100: The Most Influential People of 2024.

The 77th Tony Awards ceremony takes place on 16 June at Lincoln Centre for the Performing Arts in New York.