Michael Elizabeth

Canoeing with your dad. Running into an estate agent’s cat. Reflecting on the difficulties of sealing an envelope. The five cast members behind the 2023 Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show have 125 combined Camdram credits, and they’ve just finished their week of performing at the ADC Theatre. Up next: trimming their show to 60 minutes for touring around the UK and America.

Michael Elizabeth, Wolfson Howler My dearest Wolfson Howler! Who could have guessed you would become a fixture of my life in Cambridge? In a city so full of comedy, I found the best option at my doorstep. Cheap drinks, an enthusiastic audience, professional acts from London: a comedy-lover’s dream. And only £5 – or free for Wolfson members? The ADC could never. The range of emotions I have felt at the Howler can only be compared to the feelings elicited by an Oscar-worthy film.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself adopted into American Screenwriting Twitter. No, I’m not a screenwriter – I just followed a few screenwriters on Twitter who followed me back, and suddenly my feed was screenwriters all the way down.