John Buffalo Mailer

John Buffalo Mailer is an award-winning screenwriter, journalist, playwright, actor, and producer. He is currently Creative Director for Mailer Tuchman Media, a development and production company based out of New York. He has been published in three books of collected essays, has published two plays, has had four feature screenplays produced, and has been an editor for three national magazines—High Times, Tar, and Stop Smiling. As a journalist he has freelanced for Playboy, New York Magazine, ESPN Books, Provincetown Arts, Lid Magazine, Corriera De La Sera, The Mailer Review, The American Conservative, Vector, and Inked Magazine. He is a member of The Screen Actors Guild and a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. He has lectured at the University of Notre Dame, Wesleyan, the University of Athens, Syracuse University, The New York Society for Ethical Culture, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Long Island University, NYU, and has appeared on Fox News, Air America, Democracy Now, WNYC, TheBigThink.com, CSPAN’s Book TV, WPIX New York, and HuffPost Live among others. John is currently Executive Producing a feature Showtime documentary about the life of his father, Norman Mailer, directed by Emmy Award-Winner Jeff Zimbalist (Remastered). He is also creating a dramatic scripted series of his father’s life with James Gray (Ad Astra, Lost of City of Z, Little Odessa) based on the authorized biography by J. Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer: A Double Life, as well as co-editing a new book on Mailer’s writings on democracy with Lennon titled, The Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy, coming out on January 31st of 2023.