John Plummer

John Christian Plummer is television writer.  Nazarenes, his original spy drama set in ancient Rome, is in development for Netflix with Sony TriStar, Affirm and Revelations producing.  Mystery Island, an original whodunnit for Hallmark Mystery, premiered in 2023 and three sequels are in the works.  John wrote the 2022 Hallmark mystery hits Francesca Quinn, P.I. and Dying for Chocolate, and its sequel, Grilling Season.  For the four years he was been the writing showrunner of Mystery 101, the #1-rated mystery movie limited series for Hallmark.  John was head writer/showrunner on all 3 seasons of Granite Flats, the cold war spy drama featuring Christopher Lloyd, Parker Posey, Cary Elwes and Charlie Plummer.  He’s worked as a writer and producer for NBC, Fox, Bravo, Comedy Central, TBS, IFC, VH1, MTV, Discovery, and History.  His novel, Zip Ono, Buddhist Detective, was released by Audible in 2020.  John is also a theater director, with a special focus on Shakespeare.  From 2011 - 2019, he wrote, produced and directed for the World Science Festival in New York and Brisbane, including the shows Spooky Action: The Drama of Quantum Mechanics and Time and the Creative Cosmos, with physicist/author Brian Greene, and Awakening the Mind, about the neurologist and writer, Oliver Sacks.  He co-created the animated series Kung Fu Jimmy Chow  and The Superficial Friends.  He has been a practicing SGI Buddhist for 28 years.  He lives in the New York City and the Hudson Valley with his wife, Maia Guest, and their English bulldogs, Luigi and Luna, and is the father to sons Charlie, a professional actor, and James, a WritopiaLab student for the past 13 years who begins his first year at Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television’s screenwriting program, a testimony to the impact Writopia has had on his life.