"To Free Ourselves, We Must Feed Ourselves" ~ Leah Penniman

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"To Free Ourselves, We Must Feed Ourselves" ~ Leah Penniman 〰️

The Fable Folk

Amber Reauchean Williams

Co-Founder & Farm Manager

‘Ber is an actor, writer, voiceover artist, herbalist, and activist farmer who fell in love with gardening as a child in her grandmother’s garden.

Growing up in West Philadelphia, her grandmom’s garden was a magical oasis. She spent her summers picking flowers, running from bumble bees, telling stories, and chasing fireflies in her grandmother’s garden nestled in the shade of a grand cherry blossom tree.

Since childhood, Amber has always dreamed of having a garden of her own. She began studying herbalism in 2020 in Brooklyn, NY at the height of the pandemic. A year later, she moved to the Hudson Valley where she finally got her garden. She planted the first seeds for Fable & Sow in her small backyard garden, sowing over 80 medicinal herbs following the principles of regenerative agriculture practiced by her ancestors. She is looking forward to continuing her education in sustainable agriculture, soil science, agroforestry, and the powers of plant medicine. She looks forward to sharing the glorious bounty of nutritious food, stories, and education with her beloved community.

Hamp Fluker

Co-Founder & Artistic Director

Hamp is a storyteller, Shakespeare educator, Ethical Leadership Practitioner/Consultant, Certified Reiki Healer, and Activist Farmer. He received his BFA in Acting from Boston University and studied the classics extensively at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As an actor, he's landed leading roles on major networks such as ABC, NBC, and TNT. He received the Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in Theatre for his performance in the 2019 Broadway revival of All My Sons by Arthur Miller.

After moving to Hudson Valley in the summer of 2021, he began working as a farm hand and market vendor for local farms. He served as The Beacon Farmers' Market Manager for Common Ground Farm, where under his tenure, Beacon Farmer's Market was named the Best Farmers' Market in the Hudson Valley! During his time at Common Ground Farm, he championed initiatives to uplift BIPOC/Queer farmers, artisans, and healers.

As a Theatre Educator, he utilizes classical performance training to help BIPOC/Queer students reclaim their power in predominantly white institutions, serving as Program Coordinator for Compass Arts Creativity Project in Beacon, New York. He is overjoyed to work under his wife, Ber, as Fable & Sow becomes a reality and serves the surrounding communities with food, medicine, and a place to call home.

Bobbi Johnson

Assistant Farm Manager & Co-Founder of True North Sanctuary

Bobbi Johnson is an actress, writer, teacher, and spiritual practitioner from Bowie, Maryland. She’s an NYU Tisch graduate, a decorated poet, co-founder of True North Sanctuary, and co-creator of The Blessed Mess Mindset.

As a child of two southern Baptist preachers, she learned the power of the spoken word, the importance of sacred practice, and the healing potency of nature and community at a young age. Her work sits at the axis of radical artistic expression, community activism, and ancient spiritual practice. It’s her mission to empower others in the true articulation of their highest self and to reinstate artists as the spiritual practitioners and social thermometers of the collective consciousness.

Jarvis Tomdio

Assistant Artistic Director & Co-Founder of True North Sanctuary

Jarvis Tomdio is an actor, musician, teacher, and co-founder of True North Sanctuary. He is an alumnus of The Acting Studio NY and has several credits spanning theater, TV and film. He believes in art as a vehicle for transformation, elevation, and authentic expression. Jarvis is a “nature boy” with a deep love for the Earth and Mother Nature. He is a proud Cameroonian, hailing from a lineage of healers, farmers, and builders, through which he learned farming and working with his hands as a way to ground himself and reconnect with his ancestral roots.

His mission is to build community with other conscious creators, as he believes that a village that centers the spirit provides a viable alternative to the machine of capitalism, and lays the foundation for all within to thrive holistically. He is grateful and very excited to be a part of Fable and Sow Theatre Farm!

Jodi Collins

Industry Advisor & On - Camera Workshop Consultant

Jodi Collins is a casting director, producer, talent manager, and creative consultant with over twenty years of experience in the entertainment industry. Her company, JLC Entertainment Group, represents and develops talent, often focusing on hybrid performers and writers. Many of these multi hyphenates have held staff writer and series regular positions on popular shows for networks including HBO, Hulu, ABC, and more, while others have continued making guest appearances on various tv shows and performing in live theatre.

Jodi’s passion continues to be discovering and collaborating with new talent bringing in fresh and unique perspectives from the worlds of alternative performance, music, and writing. Network executives and their development teams have frequently reached out to Jodi for her expertise and knowledge of under-the-radar comedy talent that she scouted, building her reputation as a leading casting director in the comedy space. She has also been a favorite consultant to the top 5 talent agencies who have relied upon her to identify and to refer high-quality, lesser-known talent. Early on in their career beginnings, Jodi championed the talents of Michelle Buteau, Jim Gaffigan, Michael Ian Black, Amy Schumer, Rachel Feinstein, Jeff Ross, etc. and literally discovered Kate Mckinnon. Jodi’s outside-of-the-box perspective has been attractive to network and studio projects bridging that with the mainstream...a cutting-edge aesthetic that maintains commercial viability.

Jodi’s definitive taste and ability to interpret industry needs, coupled with her instinctive knack for uncovering compelling stories and colorful characters, have made her a sought-after figure in the field.

Along with Jamilla Ponton Bragg, Jodi is currently a member of the team developing a new play called "Race, The Movie, The Play" Written by Raybould and Cristian Duran.

Jodi is excited to join the Fable &Sow team as our Industry Consultant and On-Camera Workshop Advisor. She aims to provide the Hudson Valley performing arts community with invaluable insights into the industry for those looking to begin or advance their careers as professional artists. Additionally, she will coordinate and lead TV and film workshops covering auditioning and approaches to comedic and dramatic material, and industry Q&A sessions for the creative public in the Hudson Valley. We are thrilled to call Jodi one of the FableFolk! Jodi is also available for private online audition coaching and career advisement.

Resident Teaching Artists

  • Vanessa Bartlett

    Headshots & Portraiture

    Vanessa is a headshot, portrait, and fashion photographer. Her photography journey began in 2012 when she bought a camera and went to the zoo. There she captured a picture of a gorilla that would end up in the Smithsonian Wildlife Competition as one of the top 10 photos chosen from 37,000.

    From there, she began working with people, learning her style for headshots and portraits. Her clients were consistently surprised with their images. Not only did they see themselves in a way that both pleased and excited them, but they were also taken aback by how alive and personal the photos felt. She wasn’t just taking their headshot, She was capturing their essence.

    In 2017, she was asked to become the official photographer for Miss Universe Ireland. For almost three years she was flown to Dublin, Ireland to photograph all the contestants and then the winner later in the year. She helped design the shoots and executed each one, alongside the Director. This was an extreme exercise in intuition, having to assess 15 women and their personalities in minutes and capture each. 

    This unique experience pushed her creativity and allowed her to develop her eye for branding. She uses all she's learned in her headshot shoots, capturing entertainers as they truly are and they wish others to see them. 

    She looks forward to meeting those who feel called to work with me.

  • Nia Calloway

    Movement & Poetry

    Nia Calloway (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator who traverses the worlds of theatre, poetry, music, dance, and the healing arts. Driven by the desire to relate the natural world, supernatural phenomena, and the cosmos to our bodies, Nia’s art serves to reorient our stories around Black femme bodies. 

    Nia’s NYC Off-Broadway credits include Behind the Sheet (Betty) at Ensemble Studio Theatre, How To Save The World In Ninety Minutes (Aaliyah) at The Cherry Lane Theatre, and WILLIE GETS NAKED (dancer) at Playwrights Horizons. Nia has also performed her original poetry regularly at Symphonics Live (NYC) and has featured her work at the 2021 Berlin Poetry Festival, Bowery Poetry Club, Berlin Spoken Word, Genre Urban Arts, Write About Now (Houston, TX), & The Nuyorican. She studied dance at ROAR Berlin, exploring radical journeys in body, dance, and performance.

    Her solo theatrical work was presented at Judson Memorial Church (2020),  JACK Radical Acts Festival (2022), and HERE Arts (2023). In both 2022 and 2023, Nia was awarded a paid writing residency with Fernland Studios, focusing on Environmental Sustainability and working on the first draft of her play entitled Earth is Not One of Your Lil Friends, which was performed at Center for Performance Research NYC in December 2023 with The Bushwick Starr’s Starr Reading Series. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Poetry at The New School. Nia is thrilled and honored to partake in the Fable & Sow Artist Residency, as well as join the Fable & Sow creative team. 

  • Dominica Montoya

    Photography & Digital Media

    Dominica Montoya is a Brooklyn-based, multi-media creative with a degree in History and Education from NYU’s Steinhardt School, and over 10 years of experience behind the lens. Her work- a combination of photography, written word, and various other mediums - draws heavily on her connection to community and pop culture. Reflective of her background as a queer, midwestern, Latina, bred on MTV and  fashion magazines, Montoya explores themes of identity, family, and social justice with a vibrancy and curiosity that tell stories which are simultaneously utterly unique and universally relatable. 

    Media accolades include praise by The New York Times  & The New Yorker for her 2021 work on Exquisite Corpse Company’s “Zoetrope,” and collaborations with brands such as Cross Colours, Boy London, & AT&T’s 2019 "Codes of Culture" Campaign where her photo was featured on billboards and subway ads throughout NYC.

    She can be found online at www.smallzworldnyc.com and on instagram @minilikesmallz

  • Kaley Ronayne

    On Camera Acting & Auditioning

    Kaley Ronayne is an actor, writer, and teacher from the Midwest. She has a BFA in Acting from Boston University School of Theatre, and studied Shakespeare at LAMDA. Most recently, she can be seen as a series regular on the FOX drama The Resident, but has had multiple acting roles on Hulu, DisneyPlus, NBC, CBS, and more. Her original play, The Last Podcast on Earth, premiered at The Tank theater in New York this past fall.

    As a teacher, she utilizes the principles of screenwriting to help actors better understand how to read, break down, and make choices within a Film and TV script. Her goal is to provide a foundation that springboards each actor's unique creativity and imagination without trying to get it "right". She has taught workshops in Atlanta, New York, and LA, and also provides audition coaching services and personalized prep for her students. Her clients can be seen on shows like Grey's Anatomy, Will Trent, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, High Fidelity, Ozark, The Sopranos, Dead Ringers, Law and Order, New Amsterdam, Evil, Billions, and more. 

  • Connor Bond

    Improvisational Theatre

    Connor Bond is an actor and educator living in Beacon, NY. He received his MFA in Acting from UC Irvine and has taught and performed improv in New York City and in the Hudson Valley for almost a decade.

    Growing up with a background in jazz and musical theater in Portland, OR, his teaching comes from a place of musicality and play.

    He's very excited to be collaborating with Fable & Sow to develop advanced, grounded and expansive offerings to the Hudson Valley community.