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.
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.
Don Evans was named an AMPARTS Fellow for the United States Information Agency to India in 1984.