About Lynne McKenney Lydick

Lynne McKenney Lydick, actor and activist, is a “card-carrying member” of several social reform and political organizations: ACLU, The Jane Fund of  Central Massachusetts, NARAL, NOW, the Worcester Women’s History Project, and the League of Women Voters.

Lynne combines her passion for acting with her passion for activism by performing a one-woman play, “Yours for Humanity – Abby”. The play is based on the letters and speeches of Worcester’s own, Abby Kelley Foster, a nineteenth century radical abolitionist and woman’s rights activist. The play is performed under the auspices of the Worcester Women’s History Project.

She also performs as Clara Barton in “Follow the Cannon: a Reading of Clara Barton’s Civil War Letters” and as Melissa Gardner in the two person play, “Love Letters”.