is a director, producer, dramaturge, and published playwright.  For 25 years he served as the Executive Artistic Director of the award-winning Off-Broadway company TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, for whom he unearthed, produced, and/or directed over 200 plays, including new works and rare or forgotten classics by great writers.  His many Off-Broadway directing credits include: Incident At Vichy by Arthur Miller; The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot; Children by A.R. Gurney; Long Island Sound by Noël Coward (U.S. premiere); Home by David Storey; The Sea by Edward Bond; Hard Love (New York premiere) by Israeli playwright Motti Lerner; and the first New York City revival of Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang.  In 2018 he directed a special world premiere of Salute to the Brave by Noël Coward, starring Jennifer Ehle. 
 

A champion of new work, Evans was instrumental in launching newTACTics, a play development program.  Working with both established and emerging playwrights, newTACTics offered supportive dramaturgical feedback and opportunities to hear works read by professional actors.  Each summer it presented an annual New Play Fesitval of staged readings.  Many of the 29 works presented have gone on to full productions in theatres across the country. 

Evans conceived, co-wrote, and directed The Triangle Factory Project (Dramatists Play Service) about the historic fire in New York City in 1911, and co-wrote and directed Three Wise Guys (Broadway Play Publishing) based on short stories by Damon Runyon.  Both plays can be heard on Hear Play Audio Theatre, a podcast he created during the pandemic.  More recently, he developed an adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer, which was produced Off-Broadway in 2017. 

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An advanced member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Evans' interest and experience in musicals is also extensive.  He wrote the book and lyrics for the musicals Goose! Beyond the Nursery (3 Outer Critic Circle Award nominations, including Best Off-Broadway Musical), and Charlotte & Shaw (Eugene O’Neil finalist) and he served as Artistic Director of the American Musicals Project (AMP), an educational program created by The New-York Historical Society in conjunction with the NYC Board of Education. He produced and directed AMP’s annual concert series celebrating great musical theatre writers at the theatre at the NY Historical Society.  This highly popular series featured Broadway headliners, musical theatre experts, and theatrical legends, including Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock, Charles Strouse, to name a few.

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An experienced theater educator, Evans has led workshops and taught classes in acting, improvisation, text analysis, and performance across the country and in Canada. He is a member of SDC and the Dramatists Guild.