Personal: Lives with wife Kay in Chicago.

John is a former Marketing Executive with his own marketing firm for 22 years. Specialty in introducing consumer food products for Kraft, Sargento, Hormel, Birds-Eye and Butterball.

Kay is VP of a regional Chicago engineering firm and is an engineer specializing in Water Resources. Served most recently as head executive overseeing development of water resources for the runways for O’Hare airport in Chicago.

John & Kay in the Rockies

Trip by way of the Rocky Mountaineer.

(2025)

Quick Theater History:

• Playwright-In-Residence for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater for 10 years (1986-1995).

• Two plays on Main Stage (An American Journey, Moot)

• Two on Cabaret Stage (Hula Hoop Sha-Boop, Psychedelic Sundae).

• Subsequent productions in over 30 markets across the USA..

Awards:

• National Endowment for the Arts - 1989.

• New York City Arts Club – Second Place for Samaras in 1989.

• W. Alton Jones Foundation - $80,000 grant to the Milwaukee Repertory Theater for Moot.

Other:

• Founding Member of ComedySportz (improvisational comedy) 1980-1983. Honored by ComedySportz in 2024 for his contributions.

• VP and Board member for Chicago Dramatists 2023-2025

Guest lecturer:

• Marquette University

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Alverno College.

• Chicago Dramatists

Quick Novelist History: John has written three “practice” novels - Gardyloo!, Making the Music, Thersites (all purposely not published). This was done to learn the craft and in preparation for his current novel - The Last Newspaper.

An American Journey (Play) - Published by Broadway Publishing, Inc. (2012)

John Leicht

3470 North Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60657

919-819-9235

Email: jleicht729@gmail.com

Website: johnleicht.com

An American Journey

Moot

John & Kay at the Musikverein in Vienna

For the 200th Anniversary performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in honor of the first performance of that symphony in Vienna.

Riccardo Muti conducted the Vienna Philharmonic.

(2023)