Charles Evered

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Charles Evered (b. November 12, 1964, Passaic, New Jersey) is an American playwright. 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:

  • The Size of the World
  • Adopt a Sailor
  • Wilderness of Mirrors
  • Clouds Hill
  • Celadine
  • Ted's Head

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 sold to NBC and writing an episode of the USA hit series Monk, starring Emmy-winning actor Tony Shaloub. Mr. Evered's play, Running Funny, (first produced at The Williamstown Theatre Festival in 1988 starring Paul Giamatti) is being adapted for the screen in the fall of 2006.

Evered is married to the actress Wendy Rolfe Evered. They live in Princeton, New Jersey and Los Angeles, California.

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