John Buffalo Mailer is an award winning screenwriter, journalist, playwright, actor, and producer. In October of 2000 he founded Back House Productions in New York City with three other Wesleyan graduates, including the TONY Award Winning Director for "Hamilton", Thomas Kail. Back House became the 1st resident theater company of The Drama Bookshop's Arthur Seelan Theater in 2001, where they developed several plays including the 2008 TONY Award Winner for Best Musical, "In The Heights" by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Mailer 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 four national magazines including the infamous High Times. The New York Premiere of Mailer'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. Smith and Krauss included an excerpt from "Hello Herman" in their Best Monologues of 2011 publication, and the feature film starring Norman Reedus was released in 2012, earning the screenplay the Social Relevance Award at the 2012 Monaco International Film Festival. As an actor, he began performing at the age of twelve and went on to perform in a dozen plays in New York City throughout the 2000's. As a screen actor, he has appeared opposite Shia LaBeouf in Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Paul Giamatti and Ellen Burstyn in Matthew Barney's River Of Fundament, Tony Sirico in Friends And Romans, Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore, and Dylan McDermott in Blind, Sienna Miller in Private Life Of A Modern Woman, and can be seen in The Second Sun, American Terrorist, and DieRy. Mailer is the Creative Director of Mailer Tuchman Media, a development and production company.

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