As a child, Jean Lambert-wild experienced the creation of this cooperative as an initiatory event, which mythology continues to influence several of his projects.

It is there that André Arcellaschi, his Latin lecturer, incited him to direct plays by Plautus, Seneca the Younger and Gombrowicz.

[9] He considered joining the Merchant Navy, but shortly before saw a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters by German director Matthias Langhoff.

[11] The Comédie de Caen's mission involves enabling the creation and production of new work, and several of the shows it produces go on to tour nationally and internationally.

The location of the Comédie de Caen, in the Normandy region, allowed Lambert-wild to further his efforts in developing non-Parisian audiences, in an attempt to make culture more accessible.