Mrs. Hathaway grew up in Denver and received her training under Lillian Covillo and Freidann Parker at Colorado Ballet, and Larry Boyette (Ballet Theatre danseur) at Ballet Arts. Mrs. Hathaway attended summers at Ballet West Aspen where she trained under Bruce Marks and Toni Lander. At the age of 17 she moved with her family to Dallas and attended Book T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts and studied under Dr. Rosanne Cox. Mrs. Hathaway also studied with the Dallas Ballet Academy directed by Vivi Flindt. Upon graduating she was the honorary recipient of the George Skibine Award. She attended Southern Methodist University under Betty Ferguson.

Mrs. Hathaway’s professional credits include performing with the Dallas Ballet under the direction of Flemming Flindt, Pennsylvania/Milwaukee Ballet under the direction of Ricky Weiss, Lexington Ballet under the direction of Karl Kaughman, and Ballet Arkansas under the direction of Kirt Hathaway. During her career she has been fortunate to also work with Ferdinant Nault, Alun Jones, Ricky Weiss, Marjorie Talkchief, Susan Marshal, Helen Starr, and Robert Goldstein.

Her Repetoire includes Nutcracker, Swan Lake, La Sylphide, Giselle, Torcodore, The Three Musketeers, Serenade, Symphony and C, Symphony in Three Movements, Four Temperaments, Prina Igor, Refrain, La Sylphide, and Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Along with her husband, Kirt Hathaway, she has been the director of Hathaway Academy of Ballet Collin County Ballet Theatre since 2001.Together they have two sons, David and William. Linda has the wonderful ability to bring the joy ballet to the students and is noted as one of the finest teachers of children and dancers of all ages in the Texas area.

During his performing career he was a soloist with Cincinnati Ballet and Houston Ballet and a principal dancer with Ballet de Santiago and an extensive tenure as a principal with Dallas Ballet. He has had the privilege of dancing in ballets of some of the finest choreographers the likes of Alun Jones, Gustavo Mollajoli, Ruth Page, John Cranko and George Balanchine, Cho San Gogh, Ronald Hynd, Ben Stevenson and Alvin Ailey. His travels as a guest artist have taken him throughout the United States, Canada, Central America, South America, Mexico and the Caribbean.

He has served as associate artistic director of Lexington Ballet and artistic director of Little Rock based, Ballet Arkansas, a regional professional ballet company. As a choreographer he has staged many ballets from the classical repertoire and created over twenty new works for companies that were under his direction and as an invited guest artist. Known as an educator of dance he has taught for many regional and professional ballet companies a few including the Regional Dance America, Southwest, American College Dance Festival, Tulsa Ballet, Greenville Ballet, Ballet de Santiago, City Ballet of Houston, Kentucky Governors School for the Arts, and Ballet Mississippi. During the academic school year 2000 and 2001, Mr. Hathaway was on faculty at Stephens College, in Columbia, Missouri and director of the college Summer Dance Program. During 2005 2007 he was adjunct faculty with Southern Methodist University Meadows School of the Arts Division of Dance. Currently he is adjunct faculty teaching ballet at the Brookhaven College School of the Arts and was artists in residence in the 2003-04 academic school year.