After working as Assistant Director at the
Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh on
Gagarin Way by
Gregory Burke and
Iron by
Rona Munro, Evans was sent to the
World Interplay conference in
Townsville, Australia in 2003 by the Traverse. His first play,
A Girl in a Car with a Man, It was performed in German at the
Munich Kammerspiele in November 2005. His work for younger audiences includes
Pinocchio (2006);
Kappa (2007); an adaptation of
Ben Rice's short story
Pobby and Dingan (2010);
The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk (2010); and an adaptation of
Barry Hines’
A Kestrel for a Knave (2011).
Pondlife was also performed in Stockholm as
Neandertalare (2011) and in
Subiaco (2014). Other works include
Peter Pan (2012) at the
Sherman Cymru He co-created
Tiger and
Tiger Tale (2013) and
Little Red (2015) with Natasha Gilmore and the dance theatre company Barrowland Ballet. In 2024, his adaptation of
Neil Gaiman's
Odd and the Frost Giants was performed at the
Unicorn Theatre. His work in the UK has been published by
Faber and Faber BBC Radio 4 broadcast his abridgment of
A Patriot for Us by
John Heilpern in 2006 and his radio play
The Cracks in 2010. ==Personal life==