The Acting Studio

Actor training rooted in The Fable Method.

FALL 2026 CONSERVATORY

September 28 – December 7, 2026
The Grit Gallery · Newburgh, New York

A semester of rigorous actor training, ensemble practice, improvisation, classical work, ethical leadership, and continued artistic investigation.

Fall 2026 also marks the beginning of Fable & Sow’s Founding Membership, creating a new way for artists to make the studio an ongoing home for their practice.

Select sessions and performances will take place at The Philipstown Depot Theatre and other Hudson Valley partner spaces.

Location Note: Fable & Sow programming takes place across our network of partnering spaces in Beacon, Newburgh, Cold Spring, and Wallkill. Class locations are subject to change based on program and space needs, and any changes will always be communicated to registered students in advance.

Choose Your Room.

Fall 2026 Core Curriculum + Studio Offerings

Six rooms. Six distinct approaches to the work. Where do you want to begin?

CORE CURRICULUM

The Study
The Actor’s Gym. Our Most Advanced Scene Study.

The Return
Scene Study: Process + Practice, Reimagined.

The Agreement
Make It Up. Make It Matter. Advanced Improvisation.

STUDIO OFFERINGS

The Playground
Learn the Rules. Then Play. Improv Fundamentals.

The Warrior
Your Body Knows. Stage Violence. Intimacy. Physical Storytelling.

The Verse
Classical Scene Study, Reconsidered. Old Texts. New Questions.

*Additional studio offerings will be released during the 2026-2027 conservatory year.

Two Ways to Study

You do not have to be a member to train with Fable & Sow.

Beginning Fall 2026, artists may choose the relationship with the studio that best supports their practice.

FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP

For artists seeking an ongoing relationship with the studio throughout the academic year. Members receive one included Core course each semester, two annual Studio Course Credits of up to $100 each, Private Coaching Discounts, Priority Access to Select Programming, and a Free Fable & Sow Glass or Mug.

STANDARD TUITION

Prefer to begin with a single course? With Standard Tuition, you can take any Fall offering without a year-long membership commitment.

FALL 2026

The Weekly Glance

MONDAYS

Core Curriculum Course

Limited to 10 Actors

The Study

Advanced Scene Study
7:00–10:30 PM
10 Sessions · Begins September 28

The Return

TUESDAYS

Core Curriculum Course

Limited to 8 Actors

Scene Study: Process + Practice
7:00–10:00 PM
10 Sessions · Begins September 29

The Warrior

WEDNESDAYS

Studio Course

Limited to 10 Actors

Violence, Intimacy, and the Physical Life of the Actor
7:00–9:30 PM
October 7 · October 14 · October 21

The Playground

THURSDAYS

Studio Course

Open Enrollment. All Levels Welcome.

Fundamentals of Improvisational Theatre
6:00–7:30 PM
8 Sessions · Begins October 1

The Agreement

THURSDAYS

Core Curriculum Course

Limited to 10 improvisors

Advanced Improvisational Theatre
8:00–10:00 PM
8 Sessions · Begins October 1

The Verse

SUNDAYS

Studio Course

Limited to 8 Actors

Classical Acting & Ethical Leadership
7:00–10:00 PM
8 Sessions · Begins October 4

THE WOVEN ONES

A Three-Day Dream Creation & Ethical Leadership Intensive

November 6–8, 2026 · The Barn at WildHeart · Wallkill, NY

Created and led by Hamp Fluker / Fable & Sow, in partnership with WildHeart: Center for Performance and Embodiment Practice.

Inspired in part by the life and writing of renowned Burkinabé author, teacher, and elder Malidoma Patrice Somé, The Woven Ones begins with a simple invitation: bring one dream you have had while sleeping or one vivid memory that has stayed with you, and over three days, turn it into a short piece of live theatre.

When it is your turn to create, the other participants become your cast and collaborators. A person from your childhood can enter the room. Someone can become the animal you dreamed about last night. A remembered sound can become a chorus. The dead can return, time can collapse, or an ordinary afternoon can remain beautifully ordinary. Through movement, improvisation, storytelling, sound, image, and performance composition, you guide the ensemble in discovering how your dream or memory wants to live onstage.

Then the room changes hands, and you become part of someone else’s world.

By the end of the weekend, every participant will have created their own short theatrical work and performed in the work of others. This continual exchange of creating, leading, following, listening, and building together is also our practice of ethical leadership and beloved community.

The weekend culminates in a community sharing at The Barn at WildHeart.

Limited to 10–12 participants. No previous devised theatre experience required.

Explore The Woven Ones for the full three-day experience, tuition, community rates, and registration.

ON THE HORIZON AT THE STUDIO

The work continues beyond a single class or semester.
Throughout the year, Fable & Sow will continue to introduce Studio Courses, intensives, workshops, guest artists, and limited run experiences, creating new ways for artists to enter the work, deepen their practice, and remain in relationship with the Studio.

ABOUT STUDIO COURSES
Alongside our Core Courses, Studio Courses offer shorter, specialized, and immersive ways into the work. These rotating offerings may include intensives, screen training, improvisation, devised work, guest artists, and experimental practices that expand upon the foundations of the Fable & Sow Studio.

Studio Courses are offered throughout the year and vary in length, level, enrollment, and format. Some may require prior experience or an audition for admission.

For Founding Members: Studio Credits may be applied toward eligible Studio Courses once registration for each offering is released. Credit eligibility will be clearly noted at the time of registration.

THE FALL SCREEN SERIES

The camera returns this fall.
The Frame, The Edit, and The Set return as part of our Fall Screen Series, alongside additional opportunities to investigate the craft, preparation, and demands of acting for the camera.

THE CAVE GAME™

Created and developed by Hamp Fluker
The Study on steroids, with a twist. For the brave.
A curated, coached, and deeply immersive advanced acting experience built around endurance, ensemble, rehearsal pressure, emotional athleticism, responsiveness, and play.
One two hander play. Two teams. Actors tag one another in and out as the ensemble attempts to carry the world of the play all the way to the end.
Maximum 10 actors. Ideally 8.
Limited space. Admission by audition.
The experience may culminate in a public showing, with the agreement of the participating ensemble.

The Collision Series: Baldwin & Basquiat

Created and developed by Hamp Fluker

An acting intensive that asks the actor to see themselves differently, hold the craft less preciously, and discover just how beautiful it can be.

The Collision Series is an ongoing Fable & Sow studio experiment: what happens when actor training collides with other artistic forms?

Writers. Painters. Musicians. Thinkers. Movement. Image. Sound.

Each Collision brings another artistic language into the acting room, not to study it from a distance, but to discover what it can unlock in the actor.

Our first Collision brings together James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Across seven Saturdays, actors will be paired and given substantial scene work to live with throughout the intensive. We will build scenes, dismantle them, make choices, abandon them, and return, allowing the work to become less about protecting a performance and more about remaining alive within one.

James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and selected writings will invite us into questions of desire, intimacy, identity, contradiction, and the distance between what a person says and what they know.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s visual language will invite disruption: repetition, layering, rhythm, collision, erasure, and the possibility that crossing something out might actually allow us to see it more clearly.

And then we bring it all back to the scene.

Listening. Pursuit. Impulse. Behavior. Another actor. The courage to let the work change.

This is not a literature course or an art history course. It is an acting room, one where rigor and play can exist together, where the work can be taken apart and rebuilt, and where the actor is invited to encounter their craft, and perhaps themselves, differently.

Seven Saturdays. Sustained scene work. Baldwin. Basquiat.

Come collide.

IMPROV THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

Led by Connor Bond

Improvisational practice continues beyond the semester with additional courses, jams, intensives, and ensemble experiences throughout the year.
Artists will have ongoing opportunities to play, practice, take risks, build community, and remain in relationship with the improvisational work.

AND MORE IS GROWING

Guest artists, specialty intensives, returning Studio favorites, and new courses will continue to be announced throughout the year.
This is a living Studio.
There will always be another way into the work.

FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP

A Year in the Studio

Fall 2026 marks the beginning of Fable & Sow’s Founding Membership.

Our Founding Members aren’t simply enrolling in classes. They’re building an ongoing relationship with the studio and helping us create an artistic home rooted in rigorous training, continued practice, experimentation, collaboration, and sustained relationship.

One CORE Course Included Each Semester

One eligible CORE Curriculum Course in Fall 2026

One eligible CORE Curriculum Course in Spring 2027

Your Core course is included with your membership. No additional tuition is required.

Course enrollment is subject to availability and course eligibility.

Studio Course Credits

Two $100 Studio Credits

Use your Studio Credits toward eligible Studio Courses, Workshops, and Select Programming anytime during your membership year.

Studio Credits cannot be stacked or combined for a single program.

Audition Coaching

One Private Audition Coaching Session

Valued at $150 and available to redeem anytime during your membership year.

Member Benefits

Members also receive $50 off additional private coaching and self-tape sessions, priority access to select Fable & Sow programming, and a free Fable & Sow Glass or Mug.

$75 per month

Paid in 12 monthly installments.

One-year commitment.

One Core course each semester is included.

The Fall Conservatory begins September 28.

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