Lydia has her BFA from Southern Methodist University's esteemed theatre program. She also trained at The Moscow Art Theater and the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB). At six feet tall, Lydia is the shortest of her siblings. She made the switch from sports to acting at age 13, when she began classes at The Denver Center Theatre Academy, just north of her childhood home in Aurora, CO. At that same time she began private singing lessons with the incomparable Gene Roberts, with whom she would study for six years.