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'''John Buffalo Mailer''' is an actor, playwright, producer, and journalist. He founded Back House Productions in New York City with three other Wesleyan grads in October of 2000. Within one year Back House
'''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.  
became the resident theater company of The Drama Bookshop’s Arthur Seelan
Theater, and has developed, among many plays, the recent TONY winner for
Best Musical, ''In the Heights''. In 2001, John’s first play, ''Hello Herman'', had its
New York Premiere at the Grove Street Playhouse and recently had its West
Coast Premiere at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Los Angeles with John
in the lead role. It was developed into a feature film staring Norman Reedus in 2013. His second play,
''Crazy Eyes'', had its world premiere in Athens, Greece in 2005, and the US Premiere
in Provincetown later the same year. In 2003, John took the position of
Executive Editor for ''High Times'' magazine. In addition to the “High Times
Activist’s Guide to the RNC,” he also interviewed his father, [[Norman Mailer]],
for ''New York Magazine'', on the possible dangers and benefits of the protest.
That interview was later included in a book of discussions between father
and son on topics ranging from protest to poker and everything in between,
titled ''The Big Empty''. In 2008, in partnership
with his brother, Michael Mailer, he produced the documentary adaptation
of Naomi Wolf’s best selling book, ''The End of America''. John has been published
in ''Playboy'', ''New York Magazine'', ''Provincetown Arts'', ''Lid Magazine'', ''Stop Smiling'', ''Corriere della Sera'', ''The Mailer Review'', ''ESPN Books'', and ''The American Conservative''. He can be seen in ''Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps''.


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