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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chas Eby: Breaking with Tradition | December 12, 2017 | Join us for an evening of atypical, non-normal, anti-Hallmark holiday tales. 7 p.m. Cocktails and Live Turbo Folk Music from Orchester Prazevica Story about faking his death to scare his cousins at a christmas party | catholic, Christmas dinner, cousin, prank, spooky, vomit |
| Roy Taff: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls Improv at Dark Oddessey | |
| Richard Messick: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls | |
| Maria Broom: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls Couldn’t get a cigarette smoking scene right for The Corner | |
| Kimberely Lynne: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls Almost got run over by a car while setting a set for Centerstage | |
| John Kohn: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls Logging mime at folk festival | |
| John Aaron: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls | |
| Jimmy Kinstle: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls Hit head on sign and got knocked out in play | |
| Jessica Murphy Garrett: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls SCT friend pregnant and couldn’t breathe spray paint fumes | |
| Jay Herzog: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls Man who almost killed a folk singer by accidently hanging a stage light incorrectly | |
| B Thomas Rinaldi: The Show Must Go On! | May 22, 2017 | Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to celebrate the behind-the-scenes bedlam to ensue in the theatre’s production of “Noises Off.” Baltimore theatre-makers share their stories of the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls Director broke leg in college production | |
| Tracy Staples: The Stoop Sex Show | February 7, 2017 | A woman talks about how motherhood has effected her sex life with her husband. | marriage, motherhood, sex, sexuality |
| Powel Welliver, family law administrator: The Stoop Sex Show | February 7, 2017 | In 1968, a 17 year old girl finds herself looking at a tampax instruction in search of guidance after losing her virginity. | coming of age, firsts, funny, sex-ed, tampax, virginity |
| K.L. Parr, writer: The Stoop Sex Show | February 7, 2017 | While on spring break in Cancun, a 17 year old, inspired by James Bond’s womanizing, decides she wants to lose her virginity. | firsts, funny, LGBT, sexuality, spring break, virginity |
| John McGready: The Stoop Sex Show | February 7, 2017 | A grad student, interested in public health, finds himself volunteering at a men’s bath house. | HIV, internships, post grad, public health, volunteers |
| Joe Wall: The Stoop Sex Show | February 7, 2017 | A male entertainer finds himself at event where he doesn’t quite find in — he finds himself drinking from the wrong punch bowl only to later realize it was spiked | drugs, entertainers, former jobs, male entertainers, oops, sex |
| Jacq Jones: The Stoop Sex Show | February 7, 2017 | The owner of Sugar talks about the path that led her to open a sex positive sex toy store in Hampden. | entrepreneurs, feminism, gender and sexuality, sex, sex positivity, sex toys |
| Ignacio Rivera: ThebStoop Sex Show | February 7, 2017 | A trans person falls for a fellow panelist at a gender and sexuality panel — what he believes to be a deep connection ends up resulting in an upsetting sexual | gender, masculinity, sex, sexuality, trans |
| Stacey Chambers: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about vibrator secret | brothers, secrets, vibrators |
| Ramsey Flynn: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about uncovering the reason for the Amtrack disaster in the late 1980s | 1980s, accident, Amtrack, Baltimore Magazine, disaster, Journalism, source, uncovering |
| Mike Prout: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about being good a track in high school and secretly running to his girl friend’s house every night | boyfriend, girlfriend, high school, oversleeping, parents, rocks at window, romance, running, track |
| Lil Hughes Knipp: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about being sexually assaulted by a priest in her Catholic High School in the 60s | catholic, church, feminism, patriarchy, pediphilia, sexual assault, sexual predator, survivors, The Keepers, women |
| Katie Mack: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about wanting a baby but being single in her 30s | aging, babies, fertility, friendship, single, women |
| Jeffrey Burke: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about how Snowden’s leaks negatively impacted his life | death threats, Department of Defense, grandfathers and sons, Hacker, hiding, NSA, nuclear bombs, PTSD, Snowden, United Kingdom, white nationals |
| Gwen Mayes: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about hiding her heart condition from herself and others for most of her life | cardiac, custodians, EKG, heart, research, secrets, southern |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martine: Friends and Frenemies | March 9, 2017 | Honest and good story about being a jerk to her friend after she got quickly engaged, married, and divorced | ||
| Marty Bass: Legends of the Fall | February 9, 2006 | Losing his toupee on air | toupee | |
| Marvin Pinkert: It’s STILL Complicated | May 5, 2015 | |||
| Mary Alice Fallon Yesky: Kitchen Confidential | ||||
| Mary Alice Yeskey: Stoop Holiday Hoopla | December 15, 2008 | |||
| Mary Cosimano: Lies! | March 12, 2015 | |||
| Mary Curtain: Out of Stigma’s Shadow | May 21, 2019 | story about getting language aphasia during a deep depression in college | aphasia, crazy, day treatment, group therapy, language, mental health, recovery, self care, word salad | |
| Mary Jo: Funny AF | April 12, 2023 | |||
| Mary Klopcic: 21 Club | January 13, 2016 | A women with 10 kids recounts the challenges she has with setting rules with her special needs children | adoption, challenge, motherhood, special needs | |
| Mary Klopcic: Family Circus | June 11, 2015 | |||
| Mary Klopcic: The Giving Life | November 13, 2013 | |||
| Mary Klopcic: Things that Scare Me! | June 24, 2014 | |||
| Mary Miles | May 14, 2026 | |||
| Mary Rose Madden: Kitchen Confidential | November 2, 2009 | 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 | ||
| Mary Wiltenburg: It’s Complicated | November 15, 2018 | Story about leaving her husband for a woman late in life, getting breast cancer, and using it as an opportunity to get breast removal surgery | breast, cancer, divorce, surgery, transgender | |
| Marybeth Lennon: Intercambio | March 9, 2018 | Story about coming from a large Irish family and connecting with the hispanic immigrant community in Baltimore City | accident, birth, home, Irish, large family, Mexico, poverty, round face, school, siblings | |
| Maryrose Whelley: Coming to America | April 7, 2008 | Left Ireland to go to Canada, where it went under martial law | ||
| Maryrose: Too Close For Comfort | April 18, 2024 | |||
| Masi: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | pain researcher who injures back while meeting his in-laws | back, disc, in-laws, pain, surgery, wedding | |
| Matt Bender: My Secret Weapon | November 8, 2012 | |||
| Matt Fisher: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Really cool artsy college roommate who smokes | Loyola College, music, roommates, smoking | |
| Matt Fouse: Workin’ It | May 16, 2019 | story of turning a weird hobby into a thriving business | Baltimore, guns, Rat, rejection, shooting, Trohv | |
| Matt Hayat: Creation Stories | April 19, 2010 | |||
| Matt Hayat: War Stories | November 15, 2010 | |||
| Matt Manning: Neighbors | January 8, 2015 | While living in farmhouse a bat landed on his back while sleeping | ||
DC Buster: Neighbors
Story Date: January 8, 2015
Playing cowboys and Indians as a kid in the neighborhood...Read More
