Fiona Jowett, Lou Vella and Greg Oehm met while working on the SHYAC production of A Kidsummer Night's Dream.

Greg was the producer and Fiona and Lou's kids were in the show.

"I worked as a parent volunteer on the show and Lou's wife and my husband were involved as well," Fiona said.

"We then worked together on HONK! Jnr and started talking about how we would put together a show of our own for adults."

That conversation was the start of Pigs Fly Productions.

"We'd laugh about the idea of forming a company and we did, which is kind of where the pigs fly thing came from," she said.

"We love the idea of the impossible becoming possible."

The company formed on September 13, 2013.

The trio launched Pigs Fly Productions and announced their first show, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, on October 31, 2013, exactly one year before the show's opening night this Friday.

"It was always a favourite of mine and we wanted to do a straight drama to start with a reasonably small cast," Fiona said.

"So, in an insane move as first time director we decided to take on Oscar Wilde."

Since the announcement last October, the Pigs Fly Productions team has taken the time to get their first play right.

"We've had a very long lead in," Fiona said.

"We had three months of monthly get togethers and read throughs and by the time we get to opening day we will have spent four months in rehearsals.

"It's a very word heavy play and because it's Oscar Wilde the words are important to get right in the right order so the wit's not lost."

Theatre is something the trio does for the love of it and each of them have full time jobs on top of the production.

Fiona is a barrister, Lou works in sales at Bing Lee and Greg is a teacher at Chevalier College.

"Like anything, you find time for the things you love," Fiona said.

"It helps that the kids are always busy with their own rehearsing while I'm producing."

Out of the three, Fiona has the least experience in theatre and started as a parent volunteer before Greg taught her to stage-manage on a production of Calendar Girls in Shellharbour.

"It's one of those things that I just think 'how did I not find this 20 years ago'," she said.

Greg's area of expertise is in finding the technical solutions to a theatre production.

"I have to find the solutions for sets and I get a lot of enjoyment from solving those puzzles," he said.

"My other thing is music, so I'll be the musical director in the future as well."

While Greg has been involved with other shows, Pigs Fly Productions is his first company.

"Everything's been as I expected it would be and there's been no nasty surprises," he said.

"We can all fill in for each other and have strengths that complement each other really nicely.

Greg said Pigs Fly Productions was a family where everyone looked after each other.

"We are a family and we care deeply about the relationships within that," he said.

"We are very conscious about looking after each other and our cast and trying to be as egoless a theatre company as possible."

For Lou, theatre has been a love since he left high school, though he was originally more interested in film.

"I'm not a performer and I've never been on stage," he said.

"I'm addicted to working with creatives and actors, especially in live theatre because there's no safety net.

"Working with them inspires me to create something beautiful."

Lou spent years working on shows up in Sydney, including working with Hugh Jackman on a performance of West Side Story before he became famous.

"His acting was phenomenal and he was just a really nice guy," Lou said.

"He had star quality back then and he was never not going to succeed."

Before starting Pigs Fly Productions with his best friends, Lou had taken a 15-year break from theatre before deciding he was ready to get back into the magic.

"I decided I was ready to go back and we wanted to do it, whether it was for one show or 10," he said.

At a basic level, Lou said nothing had changed in his 15-year break.

"It's a reminder for me that hard work hasn't changed," he said.

"The hard work of producing a show is the same as it was in 1987.

"You still need the people and you're working with that human factor.

"It's exciting, adrenaline pumping, exhilarating, it fills my creative love cup and it's got to because we don't get paid for any of it."

When The Importance of Being Earnest opens on Friday night a lone rose will occupy the seat in the middle of the front row.

"I came up with the idea of a rose on the centre seat for opening night because there are many people who can't be there that we wish could be," Lou said.

"It's personal for every one of us and it's allocated to whoever the cast and crew want to put in there.

"It's reserved for that person who they wish was there."

The Importance of Being Earnest opens on Friday, October 31 at 7.30pm for an 8pm start with a charity gala night.

A percentage of the profits will go to the Southern Highlands Community Hospice.

Tickets are available at www.trybooking.com/85909 or contact Denise Gordon on 0423 985 945.