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Years later, I learned that the director of that play was a young man named Luke Yankee. Luke is the son of actress Eileen Heckart
He has directed and produced all over the country and was a protégé of the late John Houseman at USC, where Mr. Hill received an MFA in directing.
Mr. Yankee, who is also an actor and playwright, directed "Man of La Mancha."
although it is possible that Luke Yankee's otherwise fine direction may have misplaced some of their humor.
Mr. Yankee, the son of Miss Heckart and Jack Yankee, an insurance broker.
In director Luke Yankee's hands at International City Theatre, the 1978 seriocomedy is dryly funny and engagingly but never brittly dramatic, his well-chosen actors adroitly relaying both ends of the play's emotional and tonal continuums.
