[1][2] Evered took his undergraduate degree from Rutgers-Newark and an MFA from Yale University, where he studied with director George Roy Hill.
Evered wrote and directed the feature film Adopt a Sailor, starring Peter Coyote and Bebe Neuwirth.
His plays have been added to the permanent Public History Collection at the Massachusetts Historical Society and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, BBC World and on NPR, among other outlets.
In the summer of 2024 he was named Artist in Residence at the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Colonial Beach, Virginia.
In November, 2024, a collection titled "Charles Evered, Fourteen Short Plays and Monologues," covering forty years of his writing, (1984-2024), will be published by Sahara Flight.