About David Mickey Evans

David Mickey Evans has a great affection for youth. He wrote and directed "The Sandlot" and he wrote and produced "Radio Flyer", a beautiful but disturbing film about child abuse from the point of view of the children. He is a product of Loyola Marymount University, both under-graduate and graduate. There he won numerous awards, including the 1984 Sam Arkoff Award as co-writer of the best student screenplay.

Evans recognizes that he has a penchant for the angst of the pubescent generation. "I have explored it a bit. I guess that part of my life stuck in my head. It's not the only thing I want to do. I think I do it well. I don't think I have been pigeonholed though. I find it a fascinating time in someone's development. In general, just before you start thinking about the opposite sex, there is this really turbulent, confusing time in your head. It's like this morass and jungle and you finally get it out. It's about change. I find that very rich."

Perhaps it's that he was a young teen when he first realized the affect movies had on him and would have on him throughout his life. "George Lucas was a big influence. I saw Star Wars God knows how many times the first week. I could not believe that that was a movie. It just blew me away. I wanted to be a movie guy from that moment. I really wanted to be a pilot, but I knew I couldn't hack the math.
I was always a story person."

[The above is an excerpt from an article that first appeared in DRAMA-LOGUE Vol. XXVII, No. 34 Aug. 22-28, 1996. The piece was written by Tom Rovenzano. For the full article, please click here. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read this article. If the document does not open, click below to download the free Acrobat Reader.]

Mr. Evans lives outside Los Angeles, California with his wife four children.