Stan Levin is the second child of a Jewish missionary and a hootchy-koochie dancer who met at a supermarket opening in Poughkeepsie.

It was much to their chagrin that their second child was not born first, because it would have spared them from having a second child.

He studied theatre with Aristophanes (that is Aristophanes Mushinsky, who ran a boarding house for wayward Greco-Yiddish theatre actors. In his day, "Uncle Risto" was the producer and star of "The Trojan Women and their accountants" and "Lysistrata Lippschittz").

From there, he directed off-off Broadway in a theatre so small (how small was it?), even the cockroaches had to share seats. As there was a broken-heart for every light on Broadway, Levin decided to break hearts elsewhere, and that's how he ended up with SSTG where he spent various evenings in a Spanish prison, at an RAF base, and nurturing a carnivorous plant. And those were just the cast parties. Somebody wake him up and tell him that it is time to go home.