Standing There Productions consists of lots of people, only three of whom meet once a week (if you squint) and the rest of whom are involved less directly.

Those less directly involved peeps are usually directly involved everywhere else, doing clever and entertaining things, from plays to setting up small businesses to (as many people have pointed out to me this week) advertising Hairhouse Warehouse, superannuation, and soup.

Here are some examples: Dylan Lloyd, who was our Dad in For We Are Young And Free last year at the comedy festival, is on stage again at Chapel off Chapel this August in Closer (he's the one down the bottom of the page). Luke Lennox, who is excellent, is in it too. Miriam Glaser, who was Paris Hilton and also played the boss in the red suit in Greatness Thrust Upon Them, this year's Standing There Productions comedy festival show, graced our TV screens in City Homicide a week or so ago, and Stew has just finished the behind-the-scenes shoot on an ABC TV show which, coincidentally, contains an episode in which Miriam appears. Tim Stitz, who has been around since the start of Standing There Productions, is, usually, in everything. Check your local guides. He seriously should have his own theatre. 24 hour Stitzy. Only a matter of time.

Also, some friends are setting up a creative universe in the form of office/studio space in the middle of Melbourne, so if you're a writer, designer or filmmaker and need office space and creative vibes in Melbourne, comment below and I'll see if there's anything left.

Obviously there's also Rita, one of the regular three, who heads off in a minute overseas to attend the Palm Springs and Rhode Island festivals in an official producer capacity, only to return to meet the rest of Standing There Productions (Lorin and Stew) in Bundanon, where the vibe will be, I presume, a little more relaxed than LA and New York, possibly borderline catatonic.

See, this is why people in theatre and the arts have an inconceiveable number of facebook friends. They meet people all the time, collaborate with everyone, and only ever see each other in theatre foyers or art galleries or, you know, edit suites. As for me, it's the fellow state library folk and whoever I bump into on my way to the Law-Talking-Job at the moment. That's a baffling network if ever there was one.

Everyone else, I watch from afar with pride.