Charles Evered | |
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| Born | (1964-11-12)November 12, 1964 (age 60) Passaic, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Rutgers University–Newark Yale University (MFA) |
Charles Evered (born November 12, 1964) is anAmerican-bornplaywright,screenwriter andfilm director.
Born inPassaic, New Jersey, Evered grew up inRutherford, New Jersey, the fifth child of Marie (née Cole) and Charles J. Evered.[1][2]
Evered took his undergraduate degree fromRutgers-Newark and an MFA fromYale University, where he studied with directorGeorge Roy Hill. He has won several awards for his writing including theCrawford Award, the Berrilla Kerr Award, theAlfred P. Sloan Fellowship at theManhattan Theatre Club, the Chesterfield/Amblin Fellowship, (Sponsored by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment), the Edward Albee/William Flanagan Fellowship, the Bert Linder Fellowship and the Lucas Artist Fellowship at theMillay Colony.
His plays includeRunning Funny, (premiere atWilliamstown Theatre Festival featuredPaul Giamatti),Billy and Dago, (Actors Studio—NYC) premiere featuredScott Cohen,The Size of the World, (Yale Repertory premiere featuredLiev Schreiber,Circle Repertory Company—NYC premiere featuredRita Moreno andFrank Whaley, directed by Austin Pendleton),The Shoreham, (LA premiere featuredEric Stoltz),Adopt a Sailor, (Town Hall—NYC premiere featuredSam Waterston,Eli Wallach andNeil Patrick Harris),Celadine, (premiere featuredAmy Irving) andClass, (premiere featuredThaao Penghlis andHeather Matarazzo.) His plays have been published byBroadway Play Publishing,Samuel French and Smith and Kraus among others. Additional plays include:Traces,Wilderness of Mirrors,Bridewell,Ted's Head, Clouds Hill, Looking Again, (“Best Ten Minute Plays 2012”, Smith and Kraus) andTen.
He has written screenplays and teleplays for studios and companies such as Arthur Hiller's Golden Quill,Universal Pictures,NBC,Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Pictures andParamount Pictures. His produced film and television credits include an episode ofMonk entitled “Mr. Monk and the Leper” forUSA Network, starringTony Shalhoub. Evered wrote and directed the feature filmAdopt a Sailor, starringPeter Coyote andBebe Neuwirth.Adopt a Sailor was an official selection at more than twenty national and international film festivals, premiering onShowtime. In addition, his play "Running Funny" was adapted for the screen, and he wrote and directed the short filmVisiting, which premiered at thePalm Springs International Film Festival. His second feature film as a director,A Thousand Cuts, starred Michael O'Keefe and was nominated for aSaturn Award by theAcademy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. It was distributed byKino Lorber. Evered's most recent film,Out, starredGloria LeRoy and had its world premiere at theNewport Beach Film Festival. His play,Knock, Knock, premiered in London atTheatre503 in 2014. His newest play, An Actor's Carol, which he directed, premiered in December 2015 starring Tony winnerHal Linden and was nominated for eight Desert League Awards, winning the Bill Groves Award for “Outstanding Original Writing.” He is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America and has taught or guest lectured at Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, Whitman College, Emerson College and the University of California where he was conferred Emeritus status. His plays have been added to the permanent Public History Collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, BBC World and on NPR, among other outlets. In the summer of 2024 he was named Artist in Residence at the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Colonial Beach, Virginia. In November, 2024, a collection titled "Charles Evered, Fourteen Short Plays and Monologues," covering forty years of his writing, (1984-2024), will be published by Sahara Flight.
Evered is founder of the "Evered House," a nonprofit that supports artists who are military veterans. The Evered House is dedicated to his father, Charles J. Evered, a veteran ofWorld War II. Mr. Evered is currently on a 50 state tour with his play "Adopt a Sailor" in support of the program. Evered himself served in the United States Navy Reserve, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. He is a member of the Yale Veterans Association and a Founding Associate Member of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati. He lives in Los Angeles, California and Virginia.
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