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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alicia Gabriel: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Funny story about finding out highschool boyfriend was gay | coming out, dating |
| Roy Taff: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Story about going to Georgetown with his friend who ends up vomiting in the car from drinking too much | cars, drinking, highschool |
| Alex Hewett: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: High school cheerleader who has a mother with a mental illness | cheerleaders, mental illness |
| Greg Koren: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Weepy weird story about a high school boy who sets up a double date for prom with his future wife | amusement park, high school sweethearts, prom |
| Bill Griffiths: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | The Stoop Summer Live Radio Show The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: Highschool teacher for a group of hard students (not a great story) | high school, teacher, tough students |
| Dudley Clendinen: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | December 14, 2009 | Stories of the best, worst, and most memorable celebrations and conflagrations Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell. Arty Hill – Singer/Songwriter Ellen | |
| Heather Moyer: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | December 14, 2009 | Stories of the best, worst, and most memorable celebrations and conflagrations Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell. Arty Hill – Singer/Songwriter Ellen | |
| Ba Barocca: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | December 14, 2009 | Stories of the best, worst, and most memorable celebrations and conflagrations Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell. Arty Hill – Singer/Songwriter Ellen | |
| Jessica N.: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | December 14, 2009 | Stories of the best, worst, and most memorable celebrations and conflagrations Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell. Arty Hill – Singer/Songwriter Ellen | |
| Tim Young: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | |||
| Ana Goldseker: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | December 14, 2009 | Stories of the best, worst, and most memorable celebrations and conflagrations Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell. Arty Hill – Singer/Songwriter Ellen | |
| Susan Anthony: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | December 14, 2009 | Stories of the best, worst, and most memorable celebrations and conflagrations Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell. Arty Hill – Singer/Songwriter Ellen | |
| Jim V.: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | December 14, 2009 | Stories of the best, worst, and most memorable celebrations and conflagrations Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell. Arty Hill – Singer/Songwriter Ellen | |
| Shirley Brewer: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | December 14, 2009 | Stories of the best, worst, and most memorable celebrations and conflagrations Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell. Arty Hill – Singer/Songwriter Ellen Story of puppeteering Reindeers at the mall and interacting with a little girl. | |
| De’Von Brown: Kitchen Confidential | November 2, 2009 | Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of “Big Night” style masterpieces, waiting tables, and unholy cases of heartburn at the family dinner table. | |
| Chrissy Ferrera : Kitchen Confidential | November 2, 2009 | Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of “Big Night” style masterpieces, waiting tables, and unholy cases of heartburn at the family dinner table. | |
| Tony Geraci: Kitchen Confidential | November 2, 2009 | Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of “Big Night” style masterpieces, waiting tables, and unholy cases of heartburn at the family dinner table. Story of growing up in New Orleans, becoming a chef, and his passion for reconnecting children with fresh food. | |
| Mary Rose Madden: Kitchen Confidential | November 2, 2009 | Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of “Big Night” style masterpieces, waiting tables, and unholy cases of heartburn at the family dinner table. Story of learning to cook Italian family recipes from her mom and how this new appreciation of making food with love for her family has shown her how to be | |
| John Shields: Kitchen Confidential | November 2, 2009 | Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of “Big Night” style masterpieces, waiting tables, and unholy cases of heartburn at the family dinner table. Story of how his ambitions to be a rock star got derailed and his disastrous first experience in a restaurant kitchen turned into a lifelong career as a chef. | |
| Erica Chung: Kitchen Confidential | November 2, 2009 | Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of “Big Night” style masterpieces, waiting tables, and unholy cases of heartburn at the family dinner table. “Professional dater” tells story of going to New York to meet more men, meeting her future husband, and bringing a white man to meet her parents in Taiwan where he | dating, food, immigrants, love, myspace, personal ads |
| Gregory Hartzler-Miller: Kitchen Confidential | November 2, 2009 | Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of “Big Night” style masterpieces, waiting tables, and unholy cases of heartburn at the family dinner table. | |
| Rebecca Quinn: First Times | story of about first love, with lots of baltimore landmarks mentioned | ||
| Ethel Weld: First Times | |||
| Dawn Douglas: First Times | Story of breaking her first bone (wrist) as a motorcycle instructor. | ||
| Carmen Brock: First Times | Teacher tells stories of funny interactions with misbehaving students in the beginning of her Baltimore teaching career. | ||
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Weitzner: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | |||
| Brian Wendell Morton: Baltimoored | July 11, 2009 | |||
| Brianne Latrice | February 20, 2026 | |||
| Bridget Cavaiola: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Story about always wanting to play Mary in the Nativity play | Barbie, Cabbage Patch kid, Catholics, Christmas, family, little sister, Nativity | |
| Bridget Cavaiola: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Bridget Cavaiola: Oh, Baltimore | July 19, 2014 | |||
| Bridget Cavaiola: School Daze II | September 11, 2014 | |||
| Bridget Cavaiola: The Stoop Popup at Warby Parker | May 2, 2016 | |||
| Bridget: Fight Club | October 10, 2016 | |||
| Brittany Gardner: Bridging the Gap | March 9, 2022 | finding her voice in the pandemic | ||
| Brittany Roger: Making Their Mark | November 18, 2016 | |||
| Brittney Renettan: Keep Calm and ____! | February 23, 2018 | A girl growing up in a basketball family gets a brain injury and can’t fulfill her dream of playing in college. So she becomes a basketball manager at UMD | athletics, basketball, injury | |
| Brooke Johnson: Culture Shock | April 25, 2011 | |||
| Brooke Savage: Coming Out Stories | September 24, 2015 | |||
| Brooke Thomas: Parenthood | February 4, 2013 | A women who has always known she wanted a big family talks about convincing her husband to keep on having children until their family was complete | children | |
| Brooks Long: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing | January 23, 2020 | story about playing for little to no people | dude with a guitar, not listening, restaurant, volume | |
| Brooks Long: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Baltimore HS senior failing his a science class ends up passing his final with flying colors. | Baltimore, high school, math, testing | |
| Bruce Goldfarb: It’s a Mystery | October 28, 2013 | |||
| Bruce Goldfarb: The Twilight Zone | June 18, 2013 | |||
| Bruce Lebowitz | March 19, 2026 | |||
| Bunky: B-More Proud | June 27, 2024 | |||
| C Ryan Patterson: Family Drama | February 10, 2020 | story about being the father to his girlfriend’s son | bike, brothers, dads, hijinks, kids, pizza | |
| C.E. Snow: Family Circus | June 11, 2015 | |||
| Caitlin Barnett: Live and Learn | February 17, 2017 | Story about thinking she was above working at a McDonald’s but she kept messing up the cash register | ||
| Caitlin Cress: Stoop at Loyola | March 1, 2017 | Peeded in pants during college orientation | ||
Alonzo Lamont Jr.: You Want Fries With That?
Story Date: March 30, 2009
Story of going out to LA to work on a show....Read More