Ms. Hathaway began her formal ballet training at the Colorado Ballet under the founding Directors Lillian Covillo and Freidann Parker. At 14 as an Apprentice with the company she performed in Fernand Nault’s Nutcracker and studied under Ali Pourfarrok.  She also trained extensively with former ABT dancer, Larry Boyette at Ballet Arts in Denver. She spent her summers training with Ballet West/Aspen under Bruce Marks and Toni Lander. When her family moved to Dallas, she attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts under the direction of Dr. Rosanne Cox and the Dallas Ballet Academy, under the direction of Vivi Flint of the Royal Danish Ballet, where she graduated as the honorary recipient of the George Skibine Award. Upon graduation she joined the Dallas Ballet Company, under the direction of Fleming Flindt. 

While with Dallas Ballet some of her repertoire included La Sylphide, Les Sylphides, Swan Lake, Konservatoriet, Flemming Flindt’s The Toreodor, Three Musketeers, Nutcracker and Phaedra, Balanchines’ Serenade and Four Temperamants, Susan Marshal’s Refrain and Jose Limon’s There is a Time. Ms. Hathaway has performed with the Pennsylvania Ballet/Milwaukee Ballet under Director Ricky Weisse where she performed the ballets of the late George Balanchine including Symphony in C, Symphony in Three Movements, Midsummers Night Dream and Nutcracker. Ms. Hathaway attended Southern Methodist University on full merit scholarship. She danced with Ballet Arkansas under the artistic direction of her husband Kirt Hathaway. While in Arkansas she served as Academy Director developing curriculum and teaching all levels.

For the past 21 years she has been owner and director of the Hathaway Academy of Ballet with her husband, Kirt Hathaway and is co-artistic director of Collin County Ballet Theatre. Together they have two sons David & William. She is honored to be teaching for the Joffrey Ballet School in Dallas.