Felicia Londré is Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emerita of Theatre at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she taught theatre history for 42 years, supervised 90 M.A. theses, published 17 books and hundreds of articles and reviews. After retirement in 2019, she devoted three years, as president of the nonprofit KC MOlière: 400 in 2022, to an internationally-acclaimed city-wide, omni-arts celebration of Molière’s 400th birthday. That project stimulated her verse translation of THE PESTS from Moliere’s Les Fâcheux. With Brieux’s AMERICANS IN FRANCE, she is back in her fin-de-siècle comfort zone. Felicia’s other translations that have been produced are AN ITALIAN STRAW HAT by Labiche, TRIO by Kado Kostzer and Alfredo Arias, THE SHOW-MAN by Andrée Chedid, THE SNOWMAIDEN by Ostrovsky, TWO MAPLES by Shvarts, and LITTLE HUMPBACKED HORSE by Malyarevsky. Dr. Londré’s 2008 book The Enchanted Years of the Stage won the Theatre Library Association’s George Freedley Memorial Award. She served a term (2012–14) as Dean of The College of Fellows of the American Theatre. Felicia’s recognitions include ATHE’s 2001 Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Award and the 2011 Betty Jean Jones Award for Outstanding Teacher of American Theatre and Drama. She taught a semester at Hosei University in Tokyo and has presented papers at many national and international conferences. As Honorary Co-Founder of Kansas City’s Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, she served twelve years (1992–2004) on that board. She was resident dramaturg for Missouri Repertory Theatre, 1978–2001.