Felicia Hardison Londré 
University of Missouri, Kansas City, United States
Felicia Hardison Londré is Curators’ Professor of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Honorary Co-Founder of Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. She was the founding secretary of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America. She was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center in 1999 and elected to the National Theatre Conference in 2001.
Dr. Londré earned her B.A. in French at the University of Montana followed by a year of Fulbright study at the Université de Caen, her M.A. in Romance Languages at the University of Washington, and her Ph.D. in Speech-Theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Specializing in French, Russian, and American theatre history of the 19th and 20th centuries, she has taught at UMKC since 1978, with visiting professorships at Hosei University in Tokyo and Marquette University in Milwaukee.
As editor of Love’s Labour’s Lost: Critical Essays (Garland, 1997; Routledge paperback, 2000), she included material on the authorship question. Her twelfth book, The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theatre, 1870-1930, was awarded the Theatre Library Association’s 2007 George Freedley Memorial Award at Lincoln Center in New York.