[1][2] Lynton had a varied career as a champion Highland dancer, a theatre actress, an announcer, a ballet mistress for the J. C. Williamson Company, and had travelled to England receiving degrees and honours from the British Association of Teachers of Dancing.

After Egan finished her Grade 5 RAD exams, at the age of 11 she then studied under Paul Hammond at the Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, and Solo Seal levels.

While Egan was studying at the elementary level with Paul Hammond, she also took up acting and appeared on ABC television's Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten (Pacific Films)[4] whose studios were behind GTV9 (now called Channel Nine) in Bendigo Street, Richmond.

The Australian Ballet School (ABS) had just begun in 1964, and in 1965 Egan was one of 20 successful applicants nationwide to undertake a 2-yr diploma in dance, under Dame Margaret Scott.

In December 1965, during the ABS holidays, Roma auditioned at the St. Martin's Theatre, South Yarra, Melbourne, to earn money to help support herself.

The theatre accepted her and she played a prominent role in Peter O'Shaughnessy's Mumba Jumba and the Bunyip starring Barry Humphries.

Much later in life, in 1998, Egan graduated with a Master of Fine Arts, majoring in dance psychology, at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Charles Lisner, founder and director of the Queensland Ballet, had for the first time obtained a government grant to engage six full-time dancers.

In June 1969, Egan auditioned for the Australian Ballet under the directorship of Dame Peggy van Praagh and was admitted in August that year.

Graeme Murphy made his first choreographic work, Ecco le Diavole, to music by Nino Rota, presented at Melbourne's Princess Theatre in July 1971, featuring Roslyn Anderson, Roma Egan, Janet Vernon, and Wendy Walker.

The Centre offered ballet from the ages of three (Kinderballet) to about 20-yrs (Advanced Classical); in some cases with students training the whole 17-years from the pre-school through to their university years.