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Musical theatre director Adam Lenson, who championed new Jewish talent on stage, dies aged 41

Adam Lenson, who founded the SIGNAL concert series in 2017 to support composers and lyricists worldwide, died on 8 October after a battle with cancer, aged 41.
Adam Lenson, who founded the SIGNAL concert series in 2017 to support composers and lyricists worldwide, died on 8 October after a battle with cancer, aged 41.

Adam Lenson, the director and producer behind the acclaimed musical 'Cable Street', died on October 8 after a battle with cancer. Colleagues from across the theatre world remembered him as a tireless champion of new talent who fought for authentic Jewish representation on stage. He founded SIGNAL in 2017, a concert series that supported more than 300 composers and lyricists worldwide. Collaborators included Jeff Goldblum, Stephen Daldry and Victoria Wood.

'Cable Street', dramatising the 1936 stand against Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, ran at Southwark Playhouse and Marylebone Theatre.

Lenson studied natural sciences at Cambridge before choosing theatre, and built his production company ALP Musicals into a platform for artist-led, boundary-pushing work.

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