'As the World Turns' Star Colleen Zenk Joins Hit Web Series 'Milgram And The Fastwalkers'

Colleen Zenk

Hit web series Milgram And The Fastwalkers has added three-time Daytime Emmy Award nominee Colleen Zenk to its cast for the show's upcoming second season. Fastwalkers, a noir soap opera about UFOs that launched in mid-2012 to over 2 million views on Koldcast TV, will return on December 2nd for Season 2.

Zenk, best known for her role as 32-year run as Barbara Ryan on the daytime drama As the World Turns, joins Fastwalkers in the role of famous Broadway star Whit Wilkerson.

"We are positively thrilled that Colleen is joining us on Fastwalkers," said executive producer and creator, Richard Cutting. "Colleen's strong skills at blending dramatic interpretation with a puckish comic sensibility, and her willingness to engage unusual yet authentic characters, make her the perfect choice for this role."

"As an actor, I'm honored to be asked to be a part of this well-written, highly-acclaimed series, and as a sci-fi geek, I'm thrilled to get to dip my toes into a genre I love !” said Zenk.

"Fastwalkers is Fire In The Sky meets General Hospital meets In Treatment, and poses the question, 'What if they're real…What then?" said Cutting. "If you like soaps, UFOs and noir films, you'll enjoy our show."

Zenk began her professional career as a musical theater actress, co-starring in the "Bye Bye Birdie" Broadway sequel "Bring Back Birdie." Her theatrical work was put on hold as her role on the daytime drama became more demanding, until she returned to the stage in the mid 2000s as Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly!" and as Phyllis Stone in Stephen Sondheim's "Follies." An oral cancer survivor and a mother of six, Zenk has not shied away from the demands of live performance, starring in a number of theatrical productions in recent years, including her one-woman shows, "Colleen Zenk: Live" and "Still Sassy"; "Looped" (as Tallulah Bankhead); and Off-Broadway's "Odyssey – The Epic Musical," "Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis" and "Mama and Her Boys."

Next up, Zenk will headline the cast with Corbin Bleu and John Earl Elks in Michael Slade’s newest play, "Family Shots." The production has its world premiere at The Human Race Theatre Company at The Loft Theatre in downtown Dayton, running from January 22-February 8, 2015.

A drama graduate of The Catholic University of America, Zenk has partnered with The Oral Cancer Foundation to do additional interviews in print and TV media as well as produce public service TV announcements (PSA) on the importance of early detection. She has also devoted much time to the national chapters of Easter Seals, The March of Dimes and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and was on the of Governors of Bread and Roses, an AIDS hospice/facility in Connecticut for many years.

For more on Milgram and the Fastwalkers, visit fastwalkerseries.com.