Photo credit: Katharine Hannah
My debut novel
Temper is a psychological thriller set in the intense, insular world of Chicago storefront theater. The story was inspired by the real-life scandal at Chicago’s now-defunct Profiles Theatre, where Artistic Director Darrell W. Cox abused his colleagues psychologically, physically, and in just about every other way you can imagine for years, before being exposed by reporters Aimee Levitt and Christopher Piatt in a jaw-dropping 2016
Chicago Reader article.
As I was writing
Temper, I often asked myself: If I ever met a man like Malcolm Mercer, the Cox-esque diabolical director at the center of
Temper, what would I do?...