evan.fleischer at gmail dot com

Born in Long Beach, California and raised in Medford and along the North Shore of Massachusetts, Evan Fleischer is a writer and a jokester.

From 2004 to 2008, he was a member of the comedy troupe Chocolate Cake City, who released “Brokeback to the Future” in February of 2006 to worldwide attention and acclaim. While there, he was a writer, performer, camera man, video editor, sound and light technician, PR representative, a team player, booker, show runner, and — for a time — he also ran the troupe. His work was singled out by The Guardian and the head writer of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno* as — respectively — “intelligent, admirable, and very funny” and “Very funny and clever.”

As a writer, his work has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Awl, Global Voices, The Rumpus, The Weekly Dig, Interrobang Magazine, Bostonist, the Newburyport Daily News, Word Riot, and has been featured on Buzzfeed, Longform.org, Longreads, Andrew Sullivan’s “The Daily Dish,” BBC World Service, link aggregate pages for Time Magazine and Politico, the front page of Boston.com and Ron Silliman’s blog. The host of PBS’ Basic Black thinks “[he is] a true original.”

Other people have had their share of nice things to say, too.

CONTACT: evan dot fleischer at gmail dot com

* The first one.

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