The Team

Fable & Sow is built and sustained by the founders and a growing community of advisors, educators, healers, and practitioners.

Founders

Amber Williams

Co-Founder & Farm Manager

Amber “Ber” Williams is an actor, writer, voiceover artist, herbalist, and farmer whose love for gardening began in childhood in her grandmother’s garden in West Philadelphia. Tucked beneath the shade of a grand cherry blossom tree, her grandmother’s garden became a place of imagination, wonder, and deep care. Summers were spent picking flowers, running from bumble bees, and chasing fireflies through what felt like a small hidden world in the middle of the city.

Since childhood, Ber dreamed of one day tending a garden of her own. That dream deepened in 2020 when she began studying herbalism in Brooklyn, New York, during the height of the pandemic. A year later, she moved to the Hudson Valley, where she planted the very first seeds of what would eventually become Fable & Sow Theatre Farm in the backyard of her small home in Beacon, New York.

Her work today sits at the intersection of storytelling, land stewardship, herbalism, and community care. Ber received her Permaculture Certification through the Center for Bioregional Living, which continues to mentor and support her work. In 2026, she was accepted into the Sand County Foundation Land Ethic Mentorship Program and received her Food Safety PSA Grower Training Certification through the Cornell Cooperative Extension grower training pilot program. She has also completed training through Cornell Small Farms in Vegetable Production, Soil Health, Berry Production, and Cut Flower Production, alongside additional certifications in plant identification and herbal medicine making.

Ber is deeply committed to continuing her education in sustainable agriculture, soil science, agroforestry, herbalism, and ecological stewardship. Through her work at Fable & Sow, she hopes to cultivate not only nourishing food and medicinal plants, but also deeper relationships to story, land, healing, and community. She looks forward to continuing to share the beauty, nourishment, and abundance of this work with the people around her for many years to come.

Hamp Fluker

Co-Founder & Artistic Director

Hampton “Hamp” Fluker is a storyteller, actor, Shakespeare educator, ethical leadership practitioner, certified Reiki practitioner, and activist farmer.

He received his BFA in Acting from Boston University College of Fine Arts and studied classical performance at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As an actor, Hamp has appeared in leading and recurring roles across AMC, ABC, NBC, and TNT, and received the Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in Theatre for his performance in the 2019 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. He currently recurs as Michael Goodwin on Chicago Med and appears in The Terror: Devil in Silver.

As an educator and facilitator, Hamp’s work centers embodied storytelling, ethical witnessing, script analysis, and leadership through performance practice. He is the creator of The Fable Method, an evolving framework integrating acting pedagogy, facilitation, emotional athleticism, ecological thinking, and relational accountability. His leadership work is informed by training through the traditions and frameworks of Walter Earl Fluker & Associates.

Alongside his work in theatre and leadership, Hamp also maintains a healing practice rooted in meditation, grounding work, nervous system support, and Reiki in the Usui Shiki Ryōhō tradition.

After relocating to the Hudson Valley in 2021, Hamp immersed himself in farming and community-based work as a farm hand, market manager, and organizer. Together with his wife, Ber, he continues to help shape Fable & Sow into an interdisciplinary home for theatre, leadership, healing, farming, education, and community gathering.

Advisory Team

Jodi Collins

Industry Advisor & On - Camera Workshop Consultant
Jodi Collins is a casting director, producer, and talent manager with over twenty years of experience in the entertainment industry. Through her company, JLC Entertainment Group, she has championed emerging talent across comedy, theatre, and television, with clients holding series regular and staff writer positions on HBO, Hulu, ABC, and more. Known for her instinct for discovering under-the-radar performers, she has been a trusted resource for top talent agencies and network development teams alike, and has championed the early careers of artists including Michelle Buteau, Amy Schumer, and Kate McKinnon. Jodi joins Fable & Sow as our Industry Consultant and On-Camera Workshop Advisor, bringing the Hudson Valley performing arts community direct access to working industry insight.
Samir Patel

Director of Strategic Engagement
Samir Patel brings over a decade of experience in arts administration, nonprofit development, and community engagement. After relocating to the Hudson Valley in 2020, he spent four years at Hudson Valley Shakespeare, where he contributed to a capital campaign that raised $53 million. His background spans the Asia Society, UNICEF USA, and graduate work in urban planning and environmental design. Samir joined Fable & Sow in May 2025 to deepen the organization's reach and community impact.
Andrea Williams

Social Media and Digital Marketing Strategist
Andrea Williams is a brand strategist, storyteller, and digital creative with a sharp instinct for audience engagement and visual identity. Her work spans social media strategy, content development, digital marketing, and organizational storytelling, translating the heart of an organization's mission into compelling public-facing experiences. Collaborative by nature and driven by creative momentum, she brings clarity, warmth, and imagination to everything she builds. Andrea joined the Fable & Sow team to help shape the organization's digital presence and expand its reach across the Hudson Valley and beyond.

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 as they wish others to see them.
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.
Amanda Amadei

Violence & Intimacy Design
Amanda Amadei is a movement professional, violence designer, stage actor-combatant, intimacy coordinator, and yoga teacher, with over 25 years of experience. She is astounded by the beauty of people finding their physical freedom and confidence. Beginning with the non-negotiables of safety and consent, Amanda’s passion is to help actors explore their physicality to convey character and drive the narrative on stage through the physical moments of the story. Along with the director, she helps to make stage moments of violence and intimacy safe, repeatable, and true.
A dancer throughout her childhood, Amanda continued her studies at the University of Illinois, where she earned a BFA in theatre with a concentration in Stage Combat. She is a certified yoga instructor (Yoga Alliance E-RYT 500+) and the founder of the accredited Second Half School of Yoga, which trains and certifies new yoga teachers and provides continuing education for advanced instructors. Amanda has also trained extensively in trauma informed yoga and breath technique, which she utilizes in her work with veterans, the LGBTQIA+ community, and all our fellow humans deserving of compassion and patience.
Originally from Chicago, Amanda worked as an actor, stunt performer, and stage combat choreographer for many local and regional theatres before relocating to the Hudson Valley in 2009. Recently she has choreographed violence and intimacy for the Glass Ceiling Breakers, Newburgh Fringe, and Aery Festivals. She maintains a yoga practice with private clients and local classes at MOVE Cold Spring and the FulBeing Collective in Wappingers Falls.
She lives in Garrison with her wife, teenage son, and favorite dog, and spends many hours blissfully lost in the garden.
Orisha Ré

Movement Educator & Wellness Practitioner
Orisha Re' is a movement educator with 30 years of experience in strength, flexibility, corrective exercise, sensual movement, and whole-body transformation. Her work centers on high-achieving women who are powerful in every room, but often disconnected from the room inside themselves.
Through movement, education, and honest conversation, Orisha helps women return to their bodies with confidence, pleasure, and care. Her offerings include Fearlessly Sexy, her signature 1:1 transformation coaching program; private assisted stretching; perimenopause education and support; and corporate wellness programming through The Reset Experience.
Her credentials include Certified Personal Trainer, Animal Flow Instructor, NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist, NASM Stretching and Flexibility Coach, and GGS Certified Menopause Coach. She is based in Midtown East, New York City, and works with clients in-studio, in their homes, and virtually
Bobbi Johnson

Spiritual Practitioner & Educator
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 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

Acting Teacher, Musician & Community Practitioner
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.