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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shani Mink: Creature Feature | February 12, 2019 | It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. Two Jewish families in Jersey started a silent fued after one family dog died playing with another | bagels, dogs, fued, Jewish, laughter, synagogue |
| Lynn McDonald: Creature Feature | February 12, 2019 | It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. Story about how her rescue dog, Beau, became a service dog | care, dog, empathy, johns hopkins, nursing, rescue |
| Jeffery Hoffman: Head in the Stars | November 12, 2020 | The Stoop and The Jewish Museum of Maryland present a show featuring seven true, personal tales about voyaging to the final frontier both literally and imaginatively. This show is inspired story about celebrating hannakuh in space as an astronaut | |
| John Benham: Head in the Stars | November 12, 2020 | The Stoop and The Jewish Museum of Maryland present a show featuring seven true, personal tales about voyaging to the final frontier both literally and imaginatively. This show is inspired story about seeing the Challenger explode | |
| Duilla DeMello: Head in the Stars | November 12, 2020 | The Stoop and The Jewish Museum of Maryland present a show featuring seven true, personal tales about voyaging to the final frontier both literally and imaginatively. This show is inspired story about being a female astronomer | |
| Nora Lutzgendor: Head in the Stars | November 12, 2020 | The Stoop and The Jewish Museum of Maryland present a show featuring seven true, personal tales about voyaging to the final frontier both literally and imaginatively. This show is inspired story about working on the hubble during a hurricaine | |
| Edward Doyle Gillespie: Head in the Stars | November 12, 2020 | The Stoop and The Jewish Museum of Maryland present a show featuring seven true, personal tales about voyaging to the final frontier both literally and imaginatively. This show is inspired story about writing a feminist sci fi novel for his daughter | |
| Eric Morrison: Head in the Stars | November 12, 2020 | The Stoop and The Jewish Museum of Maryland present a show featuring seven true, personal tales about voyaging to the final frontier both literally and imaginatively. This show is inspired story about composing a musicial score for space vessel | |
| Sarah Pinsker: Head in the Stars | November 12, 2020 | The Stoop and The Jewish Museum of Maryland present a show featuring seven true, personal tales about voyaging to the final frontier both literally and imaginatively. This show is inspired story about traveling to china for a performance | |
| Cat Chamberlain: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | Watch the show on YouTube here. Musical Guest: Queen Earth Broadcast live on Zoom from the Baltimore Museum of Industry. story about being a physician in a covid field hospital | |
| Natasha Tylea: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | Watch the show on YouTube here. Musical Guest: Queen Earth Broadcast live on Zoom from the Baltimore Museum of Industry. story about being a female sound engineer | |
| Elijah McBride: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | Watch the show on YouTube here. Musical Guest: Queen Earth Broadcast live on Zoom from the Baltimore Museum of Industry. story about working on a crisis hotline | |
| Anonymous: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | Watch the show on YouTube here. Musical Guest: Queen Earth Broadcast live on Zoom from the Baltimore Museum of Industry. story about being a no touch escort | |
| Helmand Karzi: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | Watch the show on YouTube here. Musical Guest: Queen Earth Broadcast live on Zoom from the Baltimore Museum of Industry. story about closing a restaurant during covid | |
| Wolf Bindu: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | Watch the show on YouTube here. Musical Guest: Queen Earth Broadcast live on Zoom from the Baltimore Museum of Industry. story about being a healer | anger, healer, shaman |
| Jonathan Jacobs: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | Watch the show on YouTube here. Musical Guest: Queen Earth Broadcast live on Zoom from the Baltimore Museum of Industry. story about being an extra | extra, Joel Schumacher, set |
| Zach Ruchkin: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | Watch entire show on YouTube here. Featuring stories from people whose lives were transformed by drugs and alcohol – the thrills, the perils, the regrets, and the struggles. Featuring musical story about antidepressant and weed causing bipolar | bipolar, manic, weed, zoloft |
| Mike Moran: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | Watch entire show on YouTube here. Featuring stories from people whose lives were transformed by drugs and alcohol – the thrills, the perils, the regrets, and the struggles. Featuring musical story about last time drinking before he sobered up | alcohol, alone, hangover, hotel, sober |
| Elizabeth Piper: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | Watch entire show on YouTube here. Featuring stories from people whose lives were transformed by drugs and alcohol – the thrills, the perils, the regrets, and the struggles. Featuring musical story about her alcoholic mother embarassing her at a party | alcohol, conservative, fox news, Michael Moore, party |
| Kelly Gil: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | Watch entire show on YouTube here. Featuring stories from people whose lives were transformed by drugs and alcohol – the thrills, the perils, the regrets, and the struggles. Featuring musical story about losing son to a heroin overdose | haircut, heroin, mother, son |
| Tei Pearson: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | Watch entire show on YouTube here. Featuring stories from people whose lives were transformed by drugs and alcohol – the thrills, the perils, the regrets, and the struggles. Featuring musical story about being addicted to prescription drugs while being a counselor | airplane, black, prescription drugs, rehab, therapist |
| Gary Almeter: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | Watch entire show on YouTube here. Featuring stories from people whose lives were transformed by drugs and alcohol – the thrills, the perils, the regrets, and the struggles. Featuring musical story about student catching him drunk while he was a teacher in NYC | drunk, late night, laundry mat, New York, student, teacher, trade center |
| Zuriel Savoy: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | Watch entire show on YouTube here. Featuring stories from people whose lives were transformed by drugs and alcohol – the thrills, the perils, the regrets, and the struggles. Featuring musical Story about life-long alcohol abuse | alcohol, baseball, dui, fatherhood, teenager |
| Vanessa Battista: Movers and Shakers | story about helping a patient with terminal cancer though end of life care | cancer | |
| Shawna Potter: Movers and Shakers | March 4, 2020 | The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School present “Movers and Shakers: Stories about taking risks, breaking barriers, fighting oppression, and disrupting story about being a woman in punk and her experience being sexually harrassed | bars, creative, punk, safe spaces, women |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ricki Baker: The Stoop Says “I do!” | ||||
| Ricki Baker: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Quick tid bit about a man and his expererience with lobe-married on april 1st | love | |
| Rikki Spector: No Limits | March 6, 2019 | Story about being car jacked by two young boys and how she developed love and empathy for each of them | advocacy, car jacking, crime, empathy, politician, poverty, trauma, urban | |
| Rob Hirschfeld: Tales from the Crypt | October 24, 2022 | |||
| Rob Phoenix | December 11, 2025 | |||
| Rob Schoberlein: Postcards from the Stoop | June 8, 2012 | |||
| Rob Schoeberlein: Cool. Cruel. High School | June 5, 2010 | Geeky guy whose dad’s work friend forced his daughter to be the geek’s prom date | bellbottoms, prom | |
| Rob Schoeberlein: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Rob Sellke: Off the Menu | March 28, 2019 | Worked at MCI Center and Kennedy Center (hilarious) | assembly line, blood, caddy, Kenney Center, MCI center, secret service, tips, vomit | |
| Rob Verbsky: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Robbie Dufrane: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | story about lighting his lawn mower aflame | ||
| Robbin Lee: Family Drama | February 10, 2020 | story about her grandfather’s buddist funeral | buddism, chinese, dreams, lottery, siblings, symbols | |
| Robert : Brush with Fame | March 21, 2024 | |||
| Robert : The Path Less Traveled | ||||
| Robert Billingsley: Family Drama | February 10, 2020 | story about discovering his father’s criminal past | bootlegging, criminal, death, jail, New York, new york times, real estate, respected, secrets, stork club, wanted, wealth | |
| Robert Grossbart | March 19, 2026 | |||
| Robert Hess: Fight Club | October 10, 2016 | |||
| Robert Marbury: The Story Behind the Story | September 24, 2016 | |||
| Robert Pelrine: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Story about a boy whose aunt fell through the ceiling while taking a bath when visiting for the holidays | aunt, bath, ceiling collapse, naked, older woman | |
| Robert Selkee: My Freaky Family | November 16, 2017 | Story about grandfather who electrocuted both him and his father | electrocution, fathers, grandfathers, lightening rods, midwesterns, rural, sons | |
| Roberto Loiederman: Bah, Humbug! | December 8, 2021 | Relationship with young girl lead to him not realizing she was stealing from him | ||
| Robin Stegman: IIDA Breaking Boundaries “Loving the Earth” | September 25, 2019 | story about how she uses quirky nontraditional methods to call people to arms on environmental issues | activism, coral reef, environment, travel | |
| Robin Yasinow: That 80s Show | February 22, 2018 | fear of Mutually Assured Destruction as a high school model UN geek | fright, geek, Model, Nuclear, Russia, UN, worry | |
| Robin: Too Close For Comfort | April 18, 2024 | |||
| Robyn B: Order up! | January 15, 2013 | A women realizes that she isn’t meant for food service after working at two corporate restaurants | consent, corporate restaurants, waitressing | |
Eric Morrison: Head in the Stars
Story Date: November 12, 2020
story about composing a musicial score for space vessel...Read More
