 He was appointed to the advisory board of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation along with, among others, David Hockney, Michael York, John Schlesinger, and Armistead Maupin.For thirteen years, until 2004, he ran a writers' workshop on the Maximum Security Yard of the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi where his class consisted of a dozen murderers.He mounted a one-man show, “Murderers Are My Life”, based on his prison experiences which ran for four months at The Two Roads Theater in Studio City, CA.