John Buffalo Mailer

John Buffalo Mailer is an American actor, playwright, film producer and journalist. Born in Brooklyn in 1978, he graduated from Wesleyan University and in 2000 co-founded the New York theater company Back House Productions, which later became the resident company at The Drama Bookshop's Arthur Seelan Theater and helped develop the Tony-winning musical In The Heights. His plays include Hello Herman, published by Dramatists Play Services in 2010, and Crazy Eyes, first staged in Athens in 2005. In Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), he played Robby Mancini, an options trader and best friend to Shia LaBeouf's character. He also took the part of Renfield in a 2011 off-Broadway staging of Dracula. Mailer co-wrote The Big Empty in 2006 and was an executive producer on How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer, a 2023 documentary.