Charles evered

Charles Evered is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director. His plays include Adopt a Sailor (later a feature film starring Emmy winners Bebe Neuwirth and Peter Coyote, as well as Ethan Peck). The play version of Adopt a Sailor toured all fifty United States. Other plays include The Size of the World, Running Funny (later a feature film), An Actor’s Carol, The Shoreham, and Class. Evered has also authored a spy trilogy consisting of the plays Wilderness of Mirrors, Clouds Hill, and Celadine. He has penned screenplays for Hollywood studios as well as for television, including one of the most popular episodes of the hit series Monk, starring Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub. Evered earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University and completed his undergraduate degree in English at Rutgers–Newark. He served in the U.S. Navy Reserve for eight years, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. In 2023, his plays were added to the Permanent Public History Collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 2024, he was named Artist in Residence at the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Colonial Beach, Virginia. In 2025, he was a Research Fellow at the American Revolution Institute at the Society of the Cincinnati in Washington, D.C. In 2026, he will be an Artist in Residence at the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa, Estonia. He is the proud father of Margaret Evered and John O’Hara Evered, both of whom grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. He lives in Shenandoah, Virginia, and Bath, Maine.