Donald Thomas Evans (April 27, 1938 – October 16, 2003) was an American playwright, theater director, actor and educator.
[6] Part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, Evans had his first plays, the one-acts Orrin and Sugarmouth Sam Don’t Dance No More performed in 1972 at the Crossroads Theatre, a professional playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Other works include Blues for a Gospel Queen, The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Booker T. Brown.
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show a tragi-comic look at a middle-class black family, and A Lovesong for Miss Lydia,[9][10] described by The New York Times as a "Pinteresque variation on the Big Bad Wolf story.
[citation needed] Eighteen of his plays have been produced, both in the US and in countries including Germany, England and Hong Kong.