Linda Gray Kelley
is honored to be
cast in the role of
Dr. Blackwell by the
Harvard playwright
N. Lynn Eckhert, M.D.,
and enjoys touring with
the exhibit to medical
schools, libraries,
conferences and
associations.

Linda edited, produced
and directed the play
as well as her four
other touring pieces.
She is also an award
winning playwright.

After being rejected by all the leading medical schools,
Miss Blackwell was accepted by Geneva Medical College
where she graduated first in her class in 1849, becoming
the first woman doctor to graduate from medical school
and the first woman doctor of medicine in the modern era.

In addition to starting medical schools for women, she was
a social activist working to make the lives of women and
children better. Besides the obvious challenges she faced,
she lost an eye and had to let go of her dream of
becoming the first woman surgeon. Her story is
fast-moving, riveting and full of inspiration.

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Ms. Kelley’s performance
was highly intelligent,
deeply moving, and
utterly entertaining.

I was impressed that she
could convincingly age
the character thirty
years in a single
sentence!