Felicia Hardison Londré, Curators' Distinguished Professor Emerita, taught theatre history at UMKC for forty four years and supervised ninety M.A. theses. She specializes in French and Russian theatre as well as Shakespeare production history. In 1993, she was Honorary Co-Founder of Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. In May, this year, she presented a paper in Dijon on the musical compositions of James Reese Europe. She is currently working on an article on Love's Labour's Lost in France.
Other highlights for Dr. Londré include: dramaturg for Missouri Repertory Theatre (1978-2000), a term as Dean of The College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center (2012-14), and president of the nonprofit KC MOlière: 400 in 2022 (2019-22). Publications comprise seventeen books, over sixty scholarly articles, and hundreds of reviews and journalistic pieces. Her 2007 book The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930 won the Theatre Library Association’s George Freedley Memorial Award.
