American author, playwright, actor, producer, and journalist, also noted as the youngest child of novelist Norman Mailer and author Norris Church Mailer. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University. He has written several screenplays and is a freelance journalist. In 2006 he co-wrote The Big Empty (Nation Books, February ‘06) with his father.
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.
In 2001, Mailer’s first play, Hello Herman, had its New York Premiere at the Grove Street Playhouse and nine years later, its West Coast Premiere at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Los Angeles with him in the lead role. As a result Dramatists Play Services published the play in the Spring of 2010. John Mailer’s second play, Crazy Eyes, premiered in Athens, Greece in 2005.
Mailer portrays the character Robby Mancins, an options trader and the best friend of Shia Labeouf’s character Jake Moore, in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. He has freelanced for Playboy, New York Magazine, Provincetown Arts, Lid, Stop Smiling, Corriera De La Sera, The Norman Mailer Review, ESPN Books and The American Conservative.
Mailer was selected as one of People Magazine’s sexiest men alive in 2002. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife/former assistant Claudine.
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