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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks Long: 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. Baltimore HS senior failing his a science class ends up passing his final with flying colors. | Baltimore, high school, math, testing |
| Barbara Skidmore: 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 intern in the Nixon white house has to choose between honoring her beliefs and supporting the president in Roe V Wade. | abortion, college, interns, nixon, politics, roe v.wade, supreme court, white house |
| Amanda Driscoll: 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. After the recent presidential election, a woman decides to end her long term relationship after her boyfriend won’t tolerate her political views. | activism, break-ups, politics, relationships, trump |
| Tommy Sinbazo: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | In honor of this year’s festival theme “50 Years of Cinema”, The Stoop Storytelling Series brings you true, personal stories on movies that have made the biggest impact on our Man goes to see a Batman movie in the theater on too many mushrooms and freaks out | Batman, drugs, mushrooms |
| Tia Price: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | In honor of this year’s festival theme “50 Years of Cinema”, The Stoop Storytelling Series brings you true, personal stories on movies that have made the biggest impact on our Film as a means of giving people of color a means to work through trauma and generational poverty | art, biracial, black, film, gay, police, trauma |
| Rahne Alexander: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | In honor of this year’s festival theme “50 Years of Cinema”, The Stoop Storytelling Series brings you true, personal stories on movies that have made the biggest impact on our Boy in relationship after college goes on a road trip to Palm Springs after watching Thelma and Louise in 1989 | clock tower, post college, Thelma and Louse, transgender |
| Morgan Smith: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | In honor of this year’s festival theme “50 Years of Cinema”, The Stoop Storytelling Series brings you true, personal stories on movies that have made the biggest impact on our Nerd learns a new way of thinking after watching a French New Wave film at St. Johns College while in high school | aimless, French film, post college, St. John's College |
| Josh Slates : My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | In honor of this year’s festival theme “50 Years of Cinema”, The Stoop Storytelling Series brings you true, personal stories on movies that have made the biggest impact on our High school nerd in a small town discovers Hong Kong movies through his local bodega, which begins a lifelong obsession with avant garde film | film, Hong Kong, nerds, obsession, small towns, travel |
| Gary Toller: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | In honor of this year’s festival theme “50 Years of Cinema”, The Stoop Storytelling Series brings you true, personal stories on movies that have made the biggest impact on our Not related to movies; worked with chinese woman and mistakenly gave her a jock strap for an ankle brace | ankles, cultural misunderstandings, mistakes |
| Barbara Treasure: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | In honor of this year’s festival theme “50 Years of Cinema”, The Stoop Storytelling Series brings you true, personal stories on movies that have made the biggest impact on our Woman who loves the movie The Seven Samari after viewing for a Goucher film class in the 60s | 1960s, college, Goucher, Seven Samari |
| Anna Beidelman: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | In honor of this year’s festival theme “50 Years of Cinema”, The Stoop Storytelling Series brings you true, personal stories on movies that have made the biggest impact on our Being able to see an R-rated move as a 17-year old | teenagers |
| Aaron Brall: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | In honor of this year’s festival theme “50 Years of Cinema”, The Stoop Storytelling Series brings you true, personal stories on movies that have made the biggest impact on our A man how loves the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers | old people |
| John Sarbanes: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | October 12, 2017 | Story about capturing Mikulski’s aphorisms | cummings, democrats, fighters, Mikulski, pioneers, politics, progressives, Underdogs |
| Senator Mikulski: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | October 12, 2017 | community organizing, lipstick, pioneer, women | |
| Senator Cardin: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | October 12, 2017 | Story of Mikulsk raising hell and getting her BAM-er followers | BAM, Followers, politics, women |
| Paul Sarbanes: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | October 12, 2017 | Story of serving in the Senate alongside Mikulski throughout her career | Sarbanes, Senate |
| Nancy Faidley Devine: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | October 12, 2017 | Story about going to Catholic school (IND) with Mikulski | cummings, democrats, fighters, Mikulski, pioneers, politics, progressives, Underdogs |
| Elijah Cummings: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | October 12, 2017 | Empassioned story about Milkuski’s heart and soul. | cummings, democrats, fighters, Mikulski, pioneers, politics, progressives, Underdogs |
| Dr. Vivian Pinn: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | October 12, 2017 | Story about how Mikulsk advocated for funding for woman’s health research at NIH | community organizing, lipstick, pioneer, women |
| Adam Riess: A Tribute to Barbara Mikulski | Story about how Barbara Mikulski advocated for Riess’ Space program and her subsequent attendance at his office Halloween party as dark matter | dark matter, Halloween, Hubble, Mikulski, Nobel prize, telescope | |
| Tiffany Yang: May the 4th Be With You | May 4, 2017 | From Harry Potter to The Monkees to…yes…Bruce Hornsby and The Range, these storytellers will do almost anything in the name of fandom. Woman obsessed with nerd stuff who has a boyfriend obsessed with sports | |
| McKenzie Eakin: May the 4th Be With You | May 4, 2017 | From Harry Potter to The Monkees to…yes…Bruce Hornsby and The Range, these storytellers will do almost anything in the name of fandom. Obsessed with MD PHD who was a jerk/negged her | internet dating, micropenis |
| Linda Oliva: May the 4th Be With You | May 4, 2017 | From Harry Potter to The Monkees to…yes…Bruce Hornsby and The Range, these storytellers will do almost anything in the name of fandom. Obsessed with Monkees as an 8 year old. Got a fan kit in the mail and put it in place of her Catholic shrine to Mother Mary | Catholicism, crushes, fandom, Monkees, young girls |
| Lauren M.: May the 4th Be With You | May 4, 2017 | From Harry Potter to The Monkees to…yes…Bruce Hornsby and The Range, these storytellers will do almost anything in the name of fandom. Obsessed with NSync and Justin Timberlake | |
| Lars Periwinkle: May the 4th Be With You | May 4, 2017 | From Harry Potter to The Monkees to…yes…Bruce Hornsby and The Range, these storytellers will do almost anything in the name of fandom. Obsessed with Star Wars – bonding with father | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKayla: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | story about overcoming childhood abuse and trauma | cats, forever home, foster care, physical abuse, sexual abuse | |
| McKenzie Eakin: May the 4th Be With You | May 4, 2017 | Obsessed with MD PHD who was a jerk/negged her | internet dating, micropenis | |
| McKenzie: Friends and Frenemies | March 9, 2017 | Drunk friend who thew up in new Nissan Leaf | ||
| Mckenzie: Illin’ | May 12, 2016 | Woman seeks to self-treat a bad case of sunburn | drug use, honeymoons, quest, strange cure, strange illness, success, Sunburn, Thailand | |
| McKenzie: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | 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 | |
| Meba Jones: Twilight Zone | October 24, 2019 | story about living in a haunted monastary in India | bed, buddism, fan, furniture movement, haunting, India, monk | |
| Mecks Mac: Never Have I Ever | April 11, 2022 | woman declared incompetent and kept in jail | ||
| Meg Adams: Gimme Shelter | February 7, 2011 | A story about finding home in a research base in Antarctica | home | |
| Meg Adams: Hair! | April 24, 2014 | being a victim of her older sister’s desire to “play with her hair” | ||
| Meg Viddler: Scars | July 25, 2013 | |||
| Megan Elcrat: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | |||
| Megan Hamilton | February 20, 2026 | |||
| Megan: Transportation | Sweet story about the bus | |||
| Meghann Shutt: Believe it or Not | October 1, 2012 | |||
| Meghann Shutt: Obsessed | November 15, 2022 | |||
| Meghann Shutt: Stoop…And a Night of Stories & Improv Comedy | August 24, 2019 | story about nearly getting into a fight with some monkeys in Costa Rica | Costa Rica, sandwich, tourist, travel, wherever you go there you are | |
| Meghann Shutt: The Stoop Popup at Warby Parker | May 2, 2016 | |||
| Meghann Shutt: You Want Fries With That? | March 30, 2009 | After graduating college, a girl gets a job working for the duck tours of Baltimore and ends up moving up the ladder before realizing that dressing up as a duck | Baltimore tourism, funny, mascot, post grad, rowdy kids | |
| Melani Douglass: The Stoop Die Hard Holiday Show | December 6, 2016 | A woman attends an ornament making party and realizes she is the only person of color there, she is faced with a man making a racist ornament and decides to | african american, black experience, Christmas, confrontations, holiday party, racism | |
| Melanie St. Ours: Not Throwing Away My Shot | January 19, 2017 | A left leaning woman opens up about some of the issues she believes the left is facing. | advice, justice, listening, politics | |
| Melinda Walker: You Want Fries With That? | March 30, 2009 | Women works with mentally handicapped individuals and loses the people she was in charge of in Ocean City | disabilities, newlyweds, Ocean City | |
| Melissa Broudo: The Good Fight | September 15, 2017 | |||
| Melissa Broudo: The Good Fight | September 15, 2017 | |||
| Melissa Daum: A World inside a City, I | April 8, 2011 | A women gets to play different roles of patients to help med students practice their bed side manor | acting | |
| Melissa Gerr: Funny AF | April 12, 2023 | |||
Denis Nash: Money Changes Everything
Story Date: November 10, 2008
story about how he got into finance...Read More
Dennis: Dating Stories
Story Date: February 19, 2013
Story about his sister dating people in the 50s...Read More