The Multi-Talented John Buffalo Mailer
JOHN BUFFALO MAILER is an award winning screenwriter, journalist, playwright, actor, and producer. Mailer was born in Brooklyn, the youngest child of two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient Norman Mailer. His mother is author Norris Church Mailer.
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Mailer founded Back House Productions in New York City with three other Wesleyan grads in October 2000. The following year, Back House became the resident theater company of The Drama Bookshop’s Arthur Seelan Theater, and developed, among many plays, the 2008 Tony winner for Best Musical, In The Heights, with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
As an actor, Buffalo 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; Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore, and Dylan McDermott in Blind; Sienna Miller in Private Life Of A Modern Woman; as well as Jennifer Gelfer’s The Second Sun and DieRy.
In 2006 he co-wrote The Big Empty with his father.
His screenwriting credits include Hello Herman, Blind, American Terrorist, and DieRy. He is currently developing three series: The Naked and The Dead in partnership with Sean Daniel’s Hivemind; MAILER, a historical bio-series about his father Norman Mailer; and Who Wrote The Bible, a dramatic narrative about the authors of the greatest selling book of all time, based on the bestselling book of the same title by Richard Elliott Friedman.
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DEVELOP A VOICE: 0:56 sec.
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