BIOGRAPHY
Jerron Herman
Jerron Herman (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist creating through dance, text, and visual storytelling. Based in New York City, Herman was born and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he began his career pursuing performance and playwriting. In 2009, he moved to New York City to study Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Continuing his dream of crafting stories to be performed, he then studied Media, Culture, and the Arts with an emphasis in Art History and Playwriting at The King’s College, from which he graduated in 2013. While in school he was “discovered” by a choreographer who led him to audition for Heidi Latsky, quickly becoming a key member of her company, Heidi Latsky Dance. “The inexhaustible Mr. Herman” (The New York Times) has performed at venues like Lincoln Center and The Whitney Museum of Art. As a strong advocate for disabled athletes and performers, he has been a featured model for both Tommy Hilfiger and Nike. His performances have begun to shed light on an often-overlooked niche of performance. He currently sits on the Board of Trustees at Dance/USA. As a writer, Jerron was a finalist for the inaugural Lark Play Development Lab/Apothetae Playwriting Fellowship, 2017. He is a 2020 Disability Futures Fellow, a joint initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon and Ford Foundation.