Are you a state-schooler? Come and direct A Comprehensive Understanding 2026!

Footlights are looking for an enthusiastic state-educated director  (or directing team) to take on A Comprehensive Understanding - leading and pitching the show for Michaelmas 2026!

A Comprehensive Understanding is a sketch show about being at state-school which has been running in Cambridge for a few years now! The show is created by a team made up entirely of state-schoolers (from writer/performers to tech crew).

For more details, please see the application pack below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1utR6mp0w_5fdfyisUVb7d4KZJa1ruOxUssYCzFBz3xw/edit?usp=sharing

Please send your responses (no more than two sides of A4) to secretary@cambridgefootlights.org by 23:59 on the 6th of May.

Please reach out if you have any questions! (president@cambridgefootlights.org, outreach@cambridgefootlights.org)

We look forward to hearing from you :)

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Contact secretary@cambridgefootlights.org before 6th May 2026 23:59 for more details.