Luke has co-written (with James Bontempo) A PLACE AT FOREST LAWN, based on the award-winning one-act play by Lorees Yerby. Winner of the New Noises Festival Playwriting Award for 2003, it was also a finalist in the Palm Springs International Playwrights competition in 2004. In addition, Luke has directed numerous staged readings of the play on both coasts with all-star casts. The Off-Broadway cast included Frances Sternhagen, Marian Seldes, George Grizzard and Tony Goldwyn. The Los Angeles cast included Betty White, Marian Ross, John Glover, Marcia Cross and Steven Culp.  It recently received a full production at The Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, a 500-seat Equity theatre outsdie of Denver. It is published by Dramatists Play Service.

 

 

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READ THE REVIEW OF 'FOREST LAWN" IN WEEKLY VARIETY

READ THE REVIEW OF "FOREST LAWN" IN COLORADO BACKSTAGE

"A PLACE AT FOREST LAWN" SYNOPSIS (.pdf file)

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Luke has just completed his latest play, THE JESUS HICKEY, an outrageous comedy about celebrity filtered through the lens of relgious fanaticism. It is the winner of the TRU Voices Award for 2007 as well as the first annual Joel and Phyllis Erlich Award. given "for a socailly relevant new work of theater."  THE JESUS HICKEY recently received a staged reading in New York at the Players Theatre starring Tony Award nominees Matthew Arkin and Merle Louise.

READ A SYNOPSIS OF "THE JESUS HICKEY"  (.pdf file)

 

TO RECEIVE A SCRIPT OF "THE JESUS HICKEY",   CONTACT LUKE YANKEE

                                                                                                             

Luke Yankee is a member of The Dramatists Guild and the Los Angeles Writers Collective.