Charles Evered

Charles Evered (born November 12, 1964) is an American-born playwright, screenwriter and film director. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Evered grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey, the fifth child of Marie (née Cole) and Charles J. Evered. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and Los Angeles, California.^[1][2]

Charles Evered took his undergraduate degree from Rutgers–Newark and an MFA from Yale University, where he studied with director George Roy Hill. Evered has won several awards for his writing, including the Berrilla Kerr Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship at the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Chesterfield/Amblin Fellowship, the Edward Albee/William Flanagan Fellowship, the Bert Linder Fellowship, the Lucas Artist Fellowship and the Crawford Playwriting Award. His plays include Running Funny (premiere featured Paul Giamatti), The Size of the World (premiere featured Liev Schreiber), The Shoreham (premiere featured Eric Stoltz), Adopt a Sailor (premiere featured Sam Waterston and Eli Wallach), Celadine (premiere featured Amy Irving) and Class (premiere featured Heather Matarazzo). Additional plays include Wilderness of Mirrors, Ted's Head, Clouds Hill and Ten.

He has written screenplays and teleplays for studios such as Universal Pictures, NBC, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. His produced film and television credits include an episode of Monk entitled "Mr. Monk and the Leper" for USA Network, starring Tony Shalhoub. Evered also wrote and directed the feature film Adopt a Sailor, starring Peter Coyote and Bebe Neuwirth. Adopt a Sailor was an official selection at more than 20 national and international film festivals, premiered on Showtime and was distributed by Echo Bridge Entertainment. His short film Visiting premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. His second feature as a director, A Thousand Cuts, will premiere in 2012 and stars Academy Award nominee Michael O'Keefe.

Evered's work has been profiled in the New York Times, BBC World and on NPR, among other outlets. He is a former officer in the United States Navy Reserve, having gained the rank of Lieutenant. In 2010 he formed a production company called Ordinance 14.

Works

• Running Funny (with Paul Giamatti and Nick Brooks, 1988)
• Billy and Dago (with William Francis McGuire, Peter Gregory, Scott Cohen, Damian Young, etc., 1989)
• The Size of the World (with Sean Cullen and Liev Schreiber, 1990/1)
• Traces (with Sean Haberle, 1990)
• The Shoreham (with Eric Stoltz, 2001)
• Bridewell (2002)
• Visiting (with Morgan Murphy and Wendy Rolfe Evered, 2002)
• Adopt a Sailor (ten minute version, with Sam Waterston, Bebe Neuwirth, Eli Wallach, etc., 2002)
• Wilderness of Mirrors (2003)
• Clouds Hill (2004)
• Celadine (with Amy Irving, 2004)
• Ted's Head (2004)
• Adopt a Sailor (Full length version) (2005)
• Boston (2008)
• Class (with Heather Matarazzo) (2010)
• Ten (2011)

References

1. ^ Coutros, Evonne."SCREENWRITER HAS SPIELBERG'S NUMBER", The New York Times, May 15, 1994. Accessed December 2, 2007.
2. ^ Stratton, Jean. "Playwright Charles Evered Enjoys Princeton’s Community of Culture", Town Topics, November 8, 2006. Accessed November 1, 2008.

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