Wrote the book "Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors" (about his experience of being a leukemia patient) that was published in 1996 by Little, Brown, and Company. This book is reviewed and written about in great deal in the January, 2003 issue of "The Oprah Magazine" in a an article about patient health-care advocacy.
Brother of Lowell Handler
Quit the Broadway show "I Hate Hamlet" mid-performance after his co-star Nicol Williamson hit him with a sword and chased him off stage. This situation was used as a plotline in the "NYPD Blue" (1993) episode "Cold Heaters" (Season 3, Episode 8)
Dropped out of the Broadway production of "Biloxi Blues" when he was diagnosed with cancer. He was Matthew Broderick's understudy. He also played Harold in the touring company of "Master Harold and the Boys," a role which Broderick played in a television production, and he appeared on "Sex and the City" (1998) with Broderick's wife, Sarah Jessica Parker.
Evan Handler Detailed Biography
Evan Handler (born January 10, 1961 in New York City) is a American actor who has appeared in a number of films and TV sitcoms such as Sex and the City (as Charlotte's love-interest, Harry Goldenblatt), and in an episode of Friends where he played a director for Days Of Our Lives when Phoebe appeared as an extra. He currently co-stars in the ABC sitcom Hot Properties. Handler is also an author of books. HIs first, "Time On Fire: My Comedy of Terrors", told the story of his unlikely recovery from acute leukemia in his mid-twenties. His second, "It's Only Temporary...The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive" is due out in 2006.
