Charles Evered
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Charles Evered (b. November 12, 1964, Passaic, New Jersey) is an American playwright and director. Evered grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey, the fifth child of Marie and Charles Evered.
Evered received his B.A. from Rutgers University, and his M.F.A from the Yale School of Drama. As a playwright, Charles Evered is known for such plays as:
- Running Funny
- Billy and Dago
- The Size of the World
- Traces
- The Shoreham
- Wilderness of Mirrors
- Clouds Hill
- Celadine
- Ted's Head
- Adopt a Sailor
Actors he has worked with include: William Fichtner, Liev Schreiber, Amy Irving, Luke Perry, Austin Pendleton, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Waterston, Eric Stoltz, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Mary Stuart Masterson, David Harbour, Jack Klugman, Wendy Rolfe Evered, Leslie Lyles, Michael Countryman, Scott Cohen, Louis Zorich, Olympia Dukakis, Rita Moreno, Frank Whaley, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Ron Livingston, Josh Fardon and Michael Nouri.
Awards include the $20,000 Amblin/Chesterfield Fellowship, the $15,000 Berilla Kerr Award, The Crawford Playwriting Award for Running Funny and The Hendon Fellowship at Yale. He was also the recipient of a $10,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant.
Mr. Evered has written screenplays for Universal Pictures, Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures. Other film and television work includes "Stateside," a pilot Evered wrote for NBC/Universal. Produced film and TV work includes the highly rated black and white/color "Mr. Monk and the Leper" episode of the USA hit series Monk, starring Emmy-winning actor Tony Shalhoub. In addition, Mr. Evered's play, Running Funny, (first produced at The Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1988 starring Paul Giamatti) has been made into a feature film with a screenplay co-written by Evered.
Evered is married to the actress Wendy Rolfe Evered. They live in Los Angeles, California and Princeton, New Jersey.
