Adam Brace (born 1980, London, England) is a British playwright and director. Brace is the resident associate dramaturg of Soho Theatre in London. His play ''Stovepipe'', performed in promenade, premiered at the

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festival in Suffolk before transferring to London for an eight-week run in collaboration with the National Theatre. The play is about corporate soldiers and Brace wrote it after a tour of

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where he conducted interviews with men in that job. The play was critically acclaimed, receiving numerous five star reviews and being called "rivetingly intelligent" by the '' Sunday Times'' and "exhilaratingly convincing' by ''

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''. The play was named at number 10 in ''

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'' Top Twenty Plays of the Decade. He has also written a play called ''A Real Humane Person Who Cares And All That'', which was performed in Edinburgh in 2008, before transferring to the Arcola in London. Brace is currently directing ''One Woman Show'' at the Ambassadors Theatre, London. This show previously played at

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in 2021.

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