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Jerron Herman is an American choreographer, dancer, performance artist, writer and a teacher for the Dream Project at National Dance Institute for children with disabilities. He grew up in California as part of a religious and art loving family. He has the movement disorder Cerebral Palsy, the symptoms of which he has absorbed into his dance movements.

He has lived in New York since 2009 when he moved there to attend New York University to study playwriting and afterwards at the The New Victory theatre in 2011. He began to develop as a dancer on 2012.

He also has been, since 2017, the vice chair of the Board of trustees at Dance/USA and a guest lecture at various institutions.

Awards
2020 Disability Futures Fellowship - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Ford Foundation

2020 WYNN Newhouse Award - WYNN Newhouse Foundation

2021 Grants to Artists Award - Foundation for Contemporary art

2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship -  Jerome Foundation