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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendy Sittner: IIDA Breaking Boundaries “Loving the Earth” | September 25, 2019 | Story about using polluted straws as art | anacostia, art, photography, pollution, straws, trash |
| Ashley Kidner: IIDA Breaking Boundaries “Loving the Earth” | September 25, 2019 | story about nurturing bees through the winter | bees, england, farmer, landscape, sustainability |
| Tashika Campbell: Stoop…And a Night of Stories & Improv Comedy | August 24, 2019 | It’s a night of true, personal stories about the adventures of travel… followed by inspired improv comedy story about haggling for items in Morrocco | fatima, market, Morrocco, target |
| Meghann Shutt: Stoop…And a Night of Stories & Improv Comedy | August 24, 2019 | It’s a night of true, personal stories about the adventures of travel… followed by inspired improv comedy story about nearly getting into a fight with some monkeys in Costa Rica | Costa Rica, sandwich, tourist, travel, wherever you go there you are |
| Eric Schaefer: Truth and Lies | July 25, 2019 | An evening of exploring the pleasure and pain of being conned with an evening of illusion, deceit, misdirection, and sleight-of-hand — featuring Stoop stories and magic acts!!! a young man looks for love and faith and finds it with a neopagan spirit | christianity, cult, lost, love, pagan |
| Ivan Bates: Truth and Lies | July 25, 2019 | An evening of exploring the pleasure and pain of being conned with an evening of illusion, deceit, misdirection, and sleight-of-hand — featuring Stoop stories and magic acts!!! a career trial lawyer makes it his mission to bring down a dirty cop | Baltimore, corruption, drugs, police officer, Wayne Jenkins |
| Carmen Brock: Truth and Lies | July 25, 2019 | An evening of exploring the pleasure and pain of being conned with an evening of illusion, deceit, misdirection, and sleight-of-hand — featuring Stoop stories and magic acts!!! Story about possibly meeting Catherine Keener in Las Vegas | alone, buffet, Catherine Keener, crazy, drinking, Las Vegas, restaurant, trade show, travel |
| Hilary Sigismondi: Truth and Lies | July 25, 2019 | An evening of exploring the pleasure and pain of being conned with an evening of illusion, deceit, misdirection, and sleight-of-hand — featuring Stoop stories and magic acts!!! Story about falling in love with a charmng compulsive liar | charming, compulsive liar, couple coaching, forgiveness, love, ohio, self help |
| Nancy Murray: Truth and Lies | July 25, 2019 | An evening of exploring the pleasure and pain of being conned with an evening of illusion, deceit, misdirection, and sleight-of-hand — featuring Stoop stories and magic acts!!! Story about lies she told herself and others as a 16 year old in a home for pregnant girls | adoption, compusive lying, fight, lies, secrets, teenage pregnancy, truth |
| Tim German (Eel O’neal): Truth and Lies | July 25, 2019 | An evening of exploring the pleasure and pain of being conned with an evening of illusion, deceit, misdirection, and sleight-of-hand — featuring Stoop stories and magic acts!!! Story about the word of indie wrestling | costumes, indie, pants, poop, shit, theater, wrestling |
| Betsy Hague: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon My husband had an abusive, unpredictable and angry mother whom he hated all of his life, and with Alzheimer’s deminishing his ability to stay in the present, his hatred for | Alzheimer's, anger, chair, connection, death, mother, parenting |
| Peter Bruun: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon story about finding love after his daughter’s tragic death | choices, college crush, divorce, heroin, maine, overdose |
| Amy Cohen: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon story about going out too far while snorking alone twice | repeat, safety, snorkling, solitude, travel |
| John Weiman: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon story about accepting that his alcoholism caused his fatal illness | alcoholism, cirrohsis, counselor, liver |
| Farida Guzdar: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon I came to the United States from India 40 years ago as a young bride of an arranged marriage. I quickly adapted to my new life, husband, and country. We | arranged marriage, choice, dating after divorce, death, India, love |
| Alex H: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon story about getting her daughter to Rome | divorce, passport, rome, travel, visa |
| Jabari Lyles: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon story about early memory of being outed | acceptance, apartment, dancing, family, fluid, gay, glen burnie, out, trans |
| Brian Volck: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon story about being a physician on a native american reservation | dirt road, divide, doctor, Native American, poverty, unite, wedding |
| Zori G: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon story about discovering ham radio and electonics | electronics, engineer, paper route, radio, Vietnam |
| Danton Spina: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about choosing the roads less traveled. Click on a photo to hear the story. This event is sponsored by the Horizon story about getting into a car accident after college | car accident, college, road trip, west |
| Theo Hill: Out of Stigma’s Shadow | May 21, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about the challenges, the surprises, the struggles, and the triumphs, of living with mental health challenges. Presented by The Stoop Storytelling Series in story about overcoming homelessness and substance abuse | addiction, alcoholism, college, homelessness, keys, military |
| Michael Teitelbaum: Out of Stigma’s Shadow | May 21, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about the challenges, the surprises, the struggles, and the triumphs, of living with mental health challenges. Presented by The Stoop Storytelling Series in story about a well-resourced family dealing with a child who has mental health issues | bipolar, depression, high school, resources, support groups, therapy, wealth, work farm |
| Alex Wykowski: Out of Stigma’s Shadow | May 21, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about the challenges, the surprises, the struggles, and the triumphs, of living with mental health challenges. Presented by The Stoop Storytelling Series in story about post partum depression | baby blues, child care, depression, post partum, suicide |
| Vijay Ramasamy: Out of Stigma’s Shadow | May 21, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about the challenges, the surprises, the struggles, and the triumphs, of living with mental health challenges. Presented by The Stoop Storytelling Series in story about hiding his depression from his Indian parents | academics, achievement, anxiety, depression, eat, failure, immigration, johns hopkins, public health, second generation, secrets, stigma |
| Latesha Higgs: Out of Stigma’s Shadow | May 21, 2019 | An evening of inspiring true, personal tales about the challenges, the surprises, the struggles, and the triumphs, of living with mental health challenges. Presented by The Stoop Storytelling Series in story about mental health as a black woman | bipolar, black mental health, black women, medication, recovery, social media, suicide, viral |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinskey: Mistaken Identity | July 18, 2024 | |||
| Poet: Stories of Strength | October 10, 2019 | story about overcoming childhood abuse and trauma | deacon, flu, forever home, foster, my little pony, resisilency, sexual abuse | |
| Polly Bart: I Did it My Way | November 1, 2018 | In my late 40’s, I became suicidal for a long, horrible month. A friend intervened and what she said to me which turned it around is the heart of the | community, daughter, friendship, funeral, mother, relationships, suicide, support | |
| 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 | |
| Powel Welliver: Family Drama | February 10, 2020 | story about her brother having autism and being sent to Rosewood | ARC, autism, bus, death, leo kanner, linwood, rosewood, secrets, trauma | |
| Powel Welliver: The Stoop Die Hard Holiday Show | December 6, 2016 | A young couple spends Christmas in colonial Williamsburg, Viriginia where they lose power and recieve a call the next day alerting them of a death in the family. | Christmas, death, family, souls | |
| Powel Welliver: 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 | |
| Powel Welliver: Witness | February 11, 2021 | story about seeing a giraffe give birth | birth, giraffe, pain, step parent, witness | |
| Prescott Gaylord: Believe it or Not | October 1, 2012 | |||
| Prescott Gaylord: First Times | May 14, 2013 | |||
| Presscott Gaylord: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Story about family videotaping Christmas every year. Prescott rebelled by filming himself naked with a santa hat covering his wang. | Christmas, family, home videos, naked, penis, santa hat, staging, tradition, VCR | |
| Preston Turner: Dating Stories | February 19, 2013 | |||
| Priscilla Morales: Re-emergence | June 5, 2021 | losing dog | ||
| Priya Mysore: My Public Health Moment | April 3, 2019 | serving as a PCV in Cambodia where people said she was ugly — not American. She hid away until she couldn’t. Finally she started to make friends with the villagers. | beauty, isolation, save the world | |
| Ptolemy Slocum: Dating Stories | February 19, 2013 | |||
| Quamar: Parenthood | February 4, 2013 | A women’s mother constantly talks about how she wanted her to have kids and when at dinner with her boyfriends daughter, the daughter says that she already is a mother. | love | |
| R. Eric Thomas: Never Have I Ever | April 11, 2022 | trying to be good at gay softball | ||
| Rabbi Daniel Burg | March 19, 2026 | |||
| Rabbi Ilan: Keepers of the Culture | September 22, 2024 | |||
| Rachel Anne Warren: The Story Behind the Story | September 24, 2016 | |||
| Rachel Joseph: Justice Talking | March 18, 2013 | |||
| Rachel Kotkin: Password, please! | June 25, 2015 | |||
| Rachel Levitan: Just Married! | September 17, 2017 | Rachel Levitan, an art and production coordinator for Mid-Atlantic Media (the JT’s parent company), talked about her mother’s rarely discussed, short-lived first marriage. When Levitan’s mother had a stroke, she | ||
| Rachel Lipton: Summer Camp Stories | March 10, 2016 | While a camp counselor, one of her campers gets hit by an archery bow under her watch | ||
| Rachel Lyons: A World Inside a City, III | April 4, 2013 | |||
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Story Date: September 22, 2020
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