Programming Highlights

Saturday, INSIDE NEW YORK remembers Theatre icon, Garland Lee Thompson, Sr., co-founder and Executive Director of the Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop. Tune in to MNN!

February 11, 2015
Inside NY Memorial
Saturday, February 14th, MNN's "Inside New York" remembers Garland Lee Thompson, Sr., New York teatre producer, writer, dictor, actor, co-founder and Executive Director of the Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop with a rebroadcast of one of his early interviews.
The cablecast coincides with a public memorial service for Garland Lee Thompson Sr. to be held on Saturday in two "acts."  Act 1 at the St. James Presbyterian Church in Harlem.  Act 2 is a reception, program and birthday celebration at Theater for the New City in Manhattan.
 
Born on February 14, 1938 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Garland Lee Thompson, Sr., was 76 years old when he passed on November 18, 2014. Thompson is best known to television audiences as Transporter Technician Wilson on the classic series Star Trek: TOS (the original series). He also appeared in several other popular television series, including Bewitched and Perry Mason.
He co-founded the Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop in 1973, along with famed actor/director Morgan Freeman, director/actress Billie Allen Henderson, and journalist Clayton Riley, as a living memorial to the life, and work of his mentor, the late actor, director, teacher and producer, Frank Silvera.
 
The Workshop has been based in the heart of Harlem, New York, for the past 40 years, and has built a long, time honored and prestigious reputation as a nationally and internationally renowned playwrights development theatre for upcoming and established artists from all over the world.
 
Thompson created the Readers Theatre Series at the prestigious National Black Theatre Festival, where he will be honored on Thursday, August 6th, Act 3: The Final Act, at this year's Festival. He was recently honored at the "Harlem is...Theater" Exhibition at The Interchurch Center in New York, that was on view through January 6, 2015. 
"INSIDE NEW YORK" is broadcast every Saturday at 8:30 pm on MNN2 and MNN.org. Get program updates via Joan Allen on Facebook and Twitter (@ARTSINEWYORK), and watch "INSIDE NEW YORK" Saturday, February 14th at 8:30 pm on MNN2 (TWC 56, RCN 83, FiOS 34) and via Livestream on MNN.org.