Lydia Mattera performed at Theatre Works in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Dinner for Several, Indoor/Outdoor, Over the Tavern, Bull in a China Shop, The Sound of Music, and A Christmas Carol. She also stage managed several Theatre Works productions and worked with Attleboro Community Theater, Mill River Dinner Theater, and the Theater Company of Rhode Island. A retired pre-school special education teacher from the Vartan Gregorian Elementary School, she also directed musicals for the Vartan Gregorian Primary Drama Club.