John Buffalo Mailer is a multifaceted individual with a diverse range of accomplishments.
In October 2000, he co-founded Back House Productions in New York City with three other Wesleyan graduates, including Thomas Kail, the TONY Award-winning director of Hamilton.
Back House Productions became the first resident theater company of The Drama Bookshop's Arthur Seelan Theater in 2001, where they developed several plays, including the 2008 TONY Award-winning musical In the Heights, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
John has been published in three books of collected essays, has written two plays, and has had four feature screenplays produced.
He has also been an editor for four national magazines, including the infamous High Times.
The New York Premiere of John's first play, Hello Herman, was directed by Thomas Kail in 2002, and was published by Dramatists Play Services in the spring of 2010 after the LA premiere.
The play was included in Smith and Krauss's Best Monologues of 2011 publication, and a feature film adaptation starring Norman Reedus was released in 2012, earning the screenplay the Social Relevance Award at the 2012 Monaco International Film Festival.
As an actor, John cut his teeth at The Actors Studio at the age of twelve and went on to perform in a dozen plays in New York City throughout the 2000s.
As a screen actor, he has appeared in a variety of films, including Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Matthew Barney's River of Fundament, Friends and Romans, Blind, The Second Sun, American Terrorist, and Private Life of a Modern Woman.
In 2023, he co-starred in Michelle Danner's Miranda's Victim opposite Abigail Breslin, Ryan Phillippe, Luke Wilson, Emily VanCamp, Andy Garcia, Josh Bowman, Kyle MacLachlan, and Donald Sutherland.
In 2024, he executive produced the award-winning documentary How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer.
John has been in a relationship with writer Olivia Rutigliano since 2024.
