After a spring hiatus to travel to New Zealand and Australia, I did some work on Jay Lee's satire horror film Zombie Strippers. I was one of the undead; very bloody, skin falling off, cannibalizing anything in sight. It was fun, but cold and sticky.

Next, I got a call from my friend Jackie Levy with whom I had done Stephen Schwartz' Working a few years back. She wanted to know if I'd be interested in playing a role in another show with her. I said: "Anything with you, doll". It was a musical called Fat Girls and I played the main character's best friend--an "uber gay" fashion designer named Oscar. It also starred NAACP Theatre Awards nominee Carla Drew. I met a lot of great people on that gig and the audiences ate us up.

Then I played Sweet Tooth, a donut-addicted construction worker in Art Zapata's heartfelt film The Last Musketeer. It was a short, easy shoot--even though I got electrocuted. (Okay…not really; it was part of the script.)

Speaking of scripts, I finished a psychological thriller called The Twinings and most of a comedy called The Fashion Bug. I also continued work on my new novel.

A little later in the year, I was cast to be in three short spots for the Fox Sports Network. They ended up only airing one of the three, where I'm an excited peanut vendor…and the way it was edited, if you blinked, you missed me. (At least they didn't edit my paycheck!)

Fortunately, I got tons of face time in my next project as the lead in Sean Geer's short film Keepers. I portray a haunted man who finds himself and his wife suddenly confronted by violent aliens. (Doncha hate it when that happens?) Just me, the actress playing my wife...and a bunch of CGI effects.

And, as the year comes to a close, it's back to the stage, in the throes of rehearsals for the L.A. premiere of GLAAD nominee Howard Casner's Queen Christina Goes Roman--a madcap (mostly) comedy where I play a foppish and slightly unstable Peter Tchaikovsky. You'll be able to see that in January.

Till then, be well.