Hawley Rowe began her dance training when she was four years old at the Hartford Ballet School in her hometown of Hartford, Connecticut. A student there for ten years, Ms. Rowe received the Friends of the Hartford Ballet scholarship in 1994. She also studied with Truman Finney for four years.

In 1995, she began her professional career with American Repertory Ballet in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1998 she danced for a year with the Cincinnati Ballet.

Ms. Rowe joined Pennsylvania Ballet in September 2000 as a member of the Corps de Ballet. She has been featured as the Wife in Jerome Robbins' The Concert, performed the big swans variation in Christopher Wheeldon's Swan Lake, Desdemona in The Moor's Pavane, Myrta in Giselle, the I Can Dream solo in Paul Taylor's Company B, the solo girl in Trey McIntyre's Blue Until June, and solo variations in The Sleeping Beauty and George Balanchine's The Nutcracker. Ms. Rowe has also performed in many of the Company's productions including Serenade, Western Symphony, Agon, Concerto Six Twenty-Two, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Concerto Barocco. Ms. Rowe also feels blessed to be mother to her son Rowe Leslie Weber, who was born February 7, 2009.