Austin Lichty was born in Stratford, Ontario and pursued professional dance training through the Fine Arts in Performance Dance program at Ryerson University's School of Performance in Toronto. He then completed the Arts Umbrella Graduate program under Artemis Gordon in Vancouver. Austin has participated in the Springboard Danse Montréal, Arts Umbrella International Summer Dance Intensive, TransFormation Danse and ProArté Danza Summer Intensive programs. Throughout his professional career, he has worked with choreographers such as James Kudelka, Crystal Pite, Guillaume Côté, Emily Molnar, Simone Orlando, Lukas Timulak, Amos Ben Tal and Ihsan Rustem, to name a few. Austin joined Ballets Jazz Montréal in 2020.