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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erica Rimlinger: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about kidnapping lawn flamingos when growin up in Stoneleight | 80s, flamingos, PLO, pranks, sombreo, Stoneleigh, suburbs |
| Chijoke Madugwulike: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about losing his father due to negligance on the part of the physicians in his native country of Nigeria. What’s worse, these physicians were his former teachers. | fathers and sons, malpractice, medicine, Nigeria |
| Chase Sampson: The Stoop in the Dark | October 26, 2017 | Story about meeting the love of her life in the military, who is married. She moved on to marry and have children of her own, but still has hopes to | affair, cheating, children, drugs, infidelity, military, mom |
| Sinclair Ceasar: The Outsiders | April 18, 2017 | Tonight we bring the outsiders IN! A boy who desperately wants friends lets himself be humiliated by them. | adolescence, bullying, embarassment, fat, food, friendship, outsider, Shame |
| Ron Tanner: The Outsiders | April 18, 2017 | Tonight we bring the outsiders IN! After growing up on a missile test site in the the Pacific, a fifteen year old boy deals with culture shock when moving to a conservative Southern town in 1969. | 1960s, bullies, culture shock, high school, otusiders, school elections |
| Rohaizad Suaidi: The Outsiders | April 18, 2017 | Tonight we bring the outsiders IN! A student from Singapore comes to the US to attend college and for the first time is forced to grapple with his racial and ethnic identity. | communities, community, identity, immigration, international, obsession, outsiders |
| Peaches Christ: The Outsiders | April 18, 2017 | Tonight we bring the outsiders IN! After being raised in Catholic school to believe everything he stood for was sinful, a gay drag queen now loves himself and makes a living being that same sinner. | gay |
| Jill Epstein Molter: The Outsiders | April 18, 2017 | Tonight we bring the outsiders IN! A high school student develops an obsession with a rock star, years later she reflects on the role that this crush played in her teenage years. | crushes, fandom, high school, new jersey, outsiders, rockstars |
| Devin Morris : The Outsiders | April 18, 2017 | Tonight we bring the outsiders IN! A Baltimore native describes his path that eventually leads to his self disocvery as an artist. | art, artist, residencies, school, self-discovery |
| Adrienne Clermont: The Outsiders | April 18, 2017 | Tonight we bring the outsiders IN! A young woman sets out to do good work in Benin — but quickly learns that connecting with the local culture is almost impossible. | co-worker, culture shock, curse, failure, faux pas, international, office, volunteer, voodoo |
| Vinny DeMarco: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A student feeling as if he won’t make it has his family come to the rescue. | family, fathers, law school, perserverance |
| Tiffany: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. Confronted by an age old family land dispute, a woman offers advice on being a good neighbor. | ancestors, family history, land disputes, neighbors |
| Ray: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A disabled man confronts another man for taking a handicap parking spot outside the wine source. | confrontations, disabilities, parking |
| Mike Ricigliano: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A sports cartoonist manages to bring a contentious dummy into a Baltimore football game. | Baltimore, Colts, dummies, football, sports, teams |
| Melanie St. Ours: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A left leaning woman opens up about some of the issues she believes the left is facing. | advice, justice, listening, politics |
| McKenzie: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. An ‘older than average’ pre-med student earns a reputation after asking another student if she could move her backpack. | age differences, class, college, reputations, school |
| Lily Gibbons: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A fifth grade teacher, frustrated that the needs of her students weren’t being met by the school, finds a new career that better supports her goals. | advocacy, mentors, middle school, support, teachers, teaching |
| Lee Kingham: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A woman files an EOCC complaint after being told she can’t apply for a job because she’s a “girl.” | d.c., discrimination, jobs, sexism |
| Lauren Doughty: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. not really a story, a women sings we shall overcome | song |
| Katie K: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A self proclaimed “band nerd” disrupts the power structure within her high school’s band. | band, band nerds, bullying, high school, outsiders |
| Katie: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A college student brings light to her college and community’s inability to deal with an assault that occured on campus. | campus, college, fraternities, sexual assault |
| Josh Kohn: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A college freshmen, following in the steps of his parents, attends a protest in D.C., gets arrested, and still manages to be home in time for his family’s Passover dinner. | activism, arrest, d.c., holidays, mothers, politics |
| JLo: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A ninth grade girl steps up to her bully in health class. | bullies, bullying, health class, high school |
| Eve Glazer: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A teacher is asked to make a speech by a head teacher in sign language, little do they know what she had ended up signing. | hidden messages, sign language, teachers, teaching |
| Caroline Moore Kochiacs: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | Inspired by “Hamilton” and this current moment in America, it’s a Stoop open mic night dedicated to stories about standing up for someone or something. A woman undergoing treatment for cancer raises about 125k for cancer research. | cancer, fundraising, perserverance, sickness |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Manning: That’s Incredible! | October 20, 2014 | |||
| Matt Manning: That’s Incredible! | October 20, 2014 | |||
| Matt Manning: Unquiet Minds | April 6, 2015 | |||
| Matt Mitchell: It’s Complicated | November 15, 2018 | Went on a family vacation to Wyoming, rode hose named “Kale”; Wyoming is a place to return to harmony and natural beauty, juxtaposed against conservative environment | horse, midwest, Wyoming | |
| Matt Purdy: School Daze II | September 11, 2014 | |||
| Matt Storrs: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | |||
| Matthew Casella: My Secret Weapon | November 8, 2012 | |||
| Maura Malone Taylor: Haunted | October 18, 2010 | |||
| Maura Malone Taylor: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Maura Roth Gormley: Scars | July 25, 2013 | |||
| Maura Taylor: Mother Love | May 8, 2024 | |||
| Maura Taylor: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2019 | December 12, 2019 | story about family making a formal organization around christmas celebration | Baltimore, civic hall, family, large, robert's rules | |
| Maura Taylor: Vintage Holiday Show | December 9, 2015 | |||
| Maureen Skahan: Dating Stories | February 19, 2013 | Story about a good date that ends with the guy getting drunk and leaving. (Strong beginning, bad ending) | ||
| Maurice Peret: Scaling the Mountain | October 4, 2011 | |||
| Max Levenson: Postcards from the Stoop | June 8, 2012 | |||
| Max Pollack: IIDA Breaking Boundaries “Loving the Earth” | September 25, 2019 | story about being obsessed with bricks | bricks, collections, obsessions, signature | |
| Max Weiss: Legends of the Fall | February 9, 2006 | College student who had a contentious relationship with her professor, Jamaica Kincaid | failure | |
| Max: Moving With Pride | June 18, 2022 | Story of finding inclusive space at boxing gym and how boxing “made them trans” (joke they like to make) | ||
| Maxie: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Dad is Conservative Catholic and mom is a liberal Jew, father is in the foreign service, lived in Cuba, dad made her bring home a car part that very much | airplanes, bombs, Catholics, conservative. metal car part, Cuba, Foreign Service, Israel, jews, liberal | |
| Maxine Erlwein | January 22, 2026 | |||
| Maya Kosok and Max Romano: Postcards from the Stoop | June 8, 2012 | couple goes cross-country on a tandem bicycle | ||
| Maya Wildberger: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A new driver almost slides down her fathers driveway after a snow | driving, near accident | |
| Maya Wildberger: Accidents! | January 23, 2014 | A new driver almost slides down her fathers driveway after a snow | driving, near accident | |
| McKay Jenkins: Under the Influence | October 10, 2011 | |||
Deb Falkenhan: The Stoop Ha-Ha Holiday Show
Story Date: December 11, 2018
story about growing up celebrating christmas in hampden...Read More