The Stoop Story Archive contains the true, personal tales shared by thousands of everyday people on our stages since 2006. We’re proud of this amazing collection and invite you to listen, browse by topic or storyteller, check out past shows — and share, share, share.
Archive
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Femi “the dry fish”: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about a man who grew up in London/Nigeria and went through the foster system. Only thing he loved was comic books. Suicidal as a teen. Went to a party | comics, fighting, guns, London, Nigeria, suicide |
| Mike Subelsky: Scary Stories | October 27, 2006 | Tales About Fear An all-male line-up share their scariest stories! Story about failing during Navy Seal training week | defecation, male, military, San Diego, Seals, swimming |
| Herman Williams: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Montel Williams’s brother. Story about how he was a talk show producer who did a show about interracial couples to get rating up. | black, diversity, Montel Williams, racism, reality talk show |
| Tracy Wahl: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. story about how a young Tracy in her 20s befriends an eccentric woman in her 80s and they start attending philosphical meetings in DC together | aging, DC, eccentric, philosophical society |
| Cranston Dize: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. story about being a 10th grade english teacher in a Baltimore City Public School, reflecting on students he’s lost to gun violence. | Baltimore City Public Schools, English, student, teacher |
| Avi Decter: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Story about how his son wanted to bring a kitten to school for show and tell. | father, kitten, show and tell, son |
| Jael Freedman: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Story about how a mean girl in 8th grade told a lie that Jael slept with 15 guys on the football field so Jael stopped going to school all together, | drop out, mean girl, playground, slut shaming |
| Brenda Wolf Smith: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Grew up in a residencial school in PA for special needs kids. | Downs Syndrome, PA, residencial, special needs |
| Ellis Marsalis III: School Daze I | September 28, 2006 | It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks. Two stories: 1st about his 4th grade son who collected Pokemon cards and ended up getting lots of his peers’ money selling them. Then the story going into a weird | 4th grade, fathers, junk, Pokemon, son |
| Jim Mancini: On the Road | June 15, 2006 | Tales about Traveling Anywhere, Somewhere, and Nowhere at All Planes, trains, and automobiles. Adventures and misadventures. Meeting strangers, making friends, parting ways. Missing connections, falling off the map. Discovering new Traveling to China to adopt his first child | adoption, China, travel |
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Sarah Achenbach | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Arzoo Malhotra | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Ty | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Evan Serpick | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Noelle Benech | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Kim Seechuck | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Huong Hill | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Ryan Heller | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Jane Davis | December 12, 2023 | ||
| ChrismaHanuKwanzakaaFestivus: Michael Lisicky | December 12, 2023 | ||
| Ron: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | ||
| Elliott: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | ||
| Danny Joe LaBrecque: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | ||
| Katie Hildreth: Balancing Act | |||
| Chisom: Bridging the Gap | finding her voice in the pandemic | ||
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ari Jacobson: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | Dressed as a red Teletubbie for Halloween college party. Went into an alley to pee. Police car came up to him. Cop made him go into his house to prove | alley, college, cops, Halloween, handcuffs, lease, pee, Teletubbie | |
| Ari: Moving With Pride | June 18, 2022 | Story of finding queer community in Baltimore, getting involved with the climbing gym, and starting queer climbing days. | ||
| Arianne Rice: Didn’t See That Coming | October 21, 2021 | a young pastor feels out of her league when she’s called to support a set of grieving parents. | ||
| Arianne Rice: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2019 | December 12, 2019 | story about the first christmas as a priest getting a divorce | forgiveness, love, priest, sorrow | |
| Armand Girard: The Stoop Mayoral Show | April 13, 2016 | |||
| Arnold Weiner: Trials and Tribulations | April 1, 2015 | |||
| Arthur Magida: Stoop Holiday Hoopla | December 15, 2008 | |||
| Arthur Sutherland: Stoop at Loyola | March 1, 2017 | Nearly failed a religion class in college | ||
| Arty Hill: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing | January 23, 2020 | Story about what it was like to play Coconuts in OC | Brown Eyed Girl, karaoke, Ocean City, Sweet Home Alabama | |
| Asa: (Re)Creation Stories | June 7, 2007 | Story about becoming transgendered | gay, hormones, lesbian | |
| Asa: Obsessed | November 15, 2022 | |||
| Aseloka Smith: Mother Love | May 8, 2024 | Aseloka Smith | ||
| Aseloka Smith: Rose-Colored Glasses | August 16, 2024 | Aseloka Smith | ||
| Ashley Esposito: Abortion is Autonomy | August 26, 2022 | |||
| Ashley Esposito: Public Health Show | September 22, 2022 | |||
| Ashley Jeffries: Rock Bottoms and Tip Tops | April 9, 2013 | While traveling with her father in Will Rogers Park they get in trouble for walking up a park | ||
| Ashley Kidner: IIDA Breaking Boundaries “Loving the Earth” | September 25, 2019 | story about nurturing bees through the winter | bees, england, farmer, landscape, sustainability | |
| Ashley Minner: Making Their Mark | November 18, 2016 | |||
| Ashley: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | |||
| Asif Majid – Musician: The Stoop Turns Ten! | February 10, 2016 | A teenage boy takes a pilgrimage with his family and expereinces a powerful momen of giving and purpose when he finds himself lost only to end up giving water to | Muslim, purpose, religion | |
| Atefeh Sadat Hosseini: Tales from the Crypt | October 24, 2022 | |||
| Audience Storyteller #1: Creation Stories | April 19, 2010 | |||
| Audience Storyteller #1: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Audience Storyteller #2: Creation Stories | April 19, 2010 | Meta story about the other stories told | ||
| Audience Storyteller #2: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
