Archive

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.

Story Title	Story Date	Story Description	Story Tags
Joni Holifield: Didn’t See That Coming	October 21, 2021	Thank you to our season partners: My story is about my early struggle through poverty. How I was able to lift myself completely from the cold, horrible grip of poverty. And how I ended up coming
Evan Woodard (Wood-ard): Didn’t See That Coming	October 21, 2021	Thank you to our season partners: Like most people at the beginning of 2020, I had no idea what the year really had in store for me. I soon found myself searching for ways to get
Tamar Jacobs (tommy): Didn’t See That Coming	October 21, 2021	Thank you to our season partners: my story is about my journey as a child with a single mom. Our struggles as immigrants and making our way in Baltimore. The twists and turns that brought me
Mark Gunnery : Didn’t See That Coming	October 21, 2021	Thank you to our season partners: One night when attending a film festival I ran into an old friend who informed me that a box of my old journals was at the Compound, a local mixed
Kevin KAL Kallaugher (Kal-la-her): Didn’t See That Coming	October 21, 2021	Thank you to our season partners: A cartoonist returns to Ft Collins, Colorado after a 40 year absence only to find in a shocking coincidence to be staying in the exact house and exact room that
Kerry Spencer Pray: Didn’t See That Coming	October 21, 2021	Thank you to our season partners: I have a history of dating gay men! I thought I married a straight man, but no, he was gay. Ope, I, also was gay. SURPRISE.
Julie King: Re-emergence	June 5, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click being a doctor during the pandemic
Elizabeth Dahl: Re-emergence	June 5, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click concern for the cicadas
Thomas Dotstry: Re-emergence	June 5, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click art in the military
Elizabeth McCain: Re-emergence	June 5, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click gay in the south
Josh Kuderna: Re-emergence	June 5, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click breaking an engagement during covid
Janelle Diamond: Re-emergence	June 5, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click covid parenting
Nicole Espaillit: Re-emergence	June 5, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click moving to Alaska from Miami
Todd Barkin: Re-emergence	June 5, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click jazz club
Priscilla Morales: Re-emergence	June 5, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series presents “Re-Emergence: An evening of stories, music, and cicadas.” An outdoor show in the gardens of The Ivy Bookshop celebrating returns, rebirths, revivals, and resilience. Click losing dog
Brandy Klein: Unmasked	March 10, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presents “Unmasked: Personal stories about the truths, experiences, and inequities revealed by the extraordinary Story about having to say goodbye to her father over Facetime on Christmas Day, as he died of COVID	covid, death, facetime, father, hospital, mask, phone
Aleks Romano: Unmasked	March 10, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presents “Unmasked: Personal stories about the truths, experiences, and inequities revealed by the extraordinary What happens when your professional dream is coming true before your very eyes at the beginning of a global pandemic? You lace up your (virtual) sneakers, get out there and	career, female, future, opera
Eduardo Antonio: Unmasked	March 10, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presents “Unmasked: Personal stories about the truths, experiences, and inequities revealed by the extraordinary starting a dream restaurant during covid	covid, disappointment, dream job, Latino, restaurant
Anthony Watters: Unmasked	March 10, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presents “Unmasked: Personal stories about the truths, experiences, and inequities revealed by the extraordinary story about starting a exercise company for the black community	black community, exercise, health, poverty
Missy Smith: Unmasked	March 10, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presents “Unmasked: Personal stories about the truths, experiences, and inequities revealed by the extraordinary Story about how she trains on navigating space as a queer black woman. She does implicit bias training	consultant, equity, flight, music, travel
Lindsey Moskowitz: Unmasked	March 10, 2021	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presents “Unmasked: Personal stories about the truths, experiences, and inequities revealed by the extraordinary The scary realities of COVID forced me to take a step back and really evaluate what I want my future to look like. I’ve always wanted kids, but I also	aging, eggs, fertility, freezing, relationships
Phill Branch: Witness	February 11, 2021	The Stoop, in collaboration with our friends at First Person Arts in Philadelphia, presents an online show featuring true stories and musical performances that investigate the theme of “witness” in
Laura Neuman: Witness	February 11, 2021	The Stoop, in collaboration with our friends at First Person Arts in Philadelphia, presents an online show featuring true stories and musical performances that investigate the theme of “witness” in
Lori James Townes : Witness	February 11, 2021	The Stoop, in collaboration with our friends at First Person Arts in Philadelphia, presents an online show featuring true stories and musical performances that investigate the theme of “witness” in story about witnessing a capital punishment death
Roy R Taff: Witness	February 11, 2021	The Stoop, in collaboration with our friends at First Person Arts in Philadelphia, presents an online show featuring true stories and musical performances that investigate the theme of “witness” in story about seeing a ghost	documentary, ghost hunter, paranormal, shadow people, ship

Story Title	Story Date	Story Description	Story Keywords
Ryan T. Shields: Lies!	March 12, 2015		Story about telling a bunch of lies at a funeral for convenience
Ryan T. Shields: Neighbors	January 8, 2015		Trying to help a woman with a walker out of a pool, he accidently grabs her breast	breasts, crimes, embarassing, Florida, pool, sex offenders, walker
Ryan T. Shields: Office Space	November 13, 2014
Sadie Fuqua: See Beyond	October 15, 2024
Sadie: B-More Proud	June 27, 2024
Safa: The Path Less Traveled
Sam Carwin: Healthy Teen		What it’s like to be the black mother of white foster children in the suburbs
Sam Farmer: Fright Night	October 20, 2016
Sam Gallant: The Stoop Seven Deadly Sins Show	February 6, 2012
Sam Sessa: Getting It Wrong	October 25, 2018		story about how an accident with gun powder caused him to be shunned in early high school	bikes, black powder, counter culture, eastern shore, hippies, middle school, music, nerds, social issues, unibomber
Sam Sharf: A World Inside a City, III	April 4, 2013
Sammy: COVID Chronicles	March 25, 2022
Sandy Asirvatham: My Theme Song	November 5, 2007		Womam talks about the anger that her mother exhibited while she was growing up and how it impacted her life and how she views her parenting	parents
Sara Autrey: Something for Everyone	March 23, 2022
Sara Hill: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux	December 10, 2007		story about a woman who wanted to kill herself and decided not to
Sara McClean: Moveable Feast	March 29, 2015
Sarah : Too Close For Comfort	April 18, 2024
Sarah Achenbach: Holidays from Hell	December 7, 2006		Story about a woman who loves christmas with a passion and married someone whose parents did Christmas just so wrong	annual present wrapping, Christmas, gift wrap, love, mother in law, obsessions, sleigh ride
Sarah Auchenbach: Rose-Colored Glasses	August 16, 2024
Sarah Beckham: My Freaky Family	November 16, 2017		Grew up Morman in Utah with depressed mom and several siblings. While in African at a sex worker intervention, boxes of condoms fell on son while he traveled with his	Africa, aids, beds, condoms, end of days, food storage, HIV, Moms, morman, research, sex talk, sex workers, sons, Tanzania, utah
Sarah Hilton	May 27, 2026
Sarah J: Family Secrets		learning at her grandparents funeral that they were, in fact, related (first cousins)	cousins, family, funny, incest, midwest
Sarah Jacques: First Times	May 14, 2013
Sarah Jennings: B-More Proud	June 27, 2024
Sarah Jennings: O Little Town of Baltimore	December 20, 2010