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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elise Gallagher at More Room in a Broken Heart: Stories about loving, losing, and rebuilding | February 13, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “More Room in a Broken Heart: Stories about loving, losing, and rebuilding” on February 13th at Checkerspot Brewing Co.With musical guests Outcalls! | |
| Miriam Tillman at More Room in a Broken Heart: Stories about loving, losing, and rebuilding | February 13, 2025 | Join The Stoop for “More Room in a Broken Heart: Stories about loving, losing, and rebuilding” on February 13th at Checkerspot Brewing Co.With musical guests Outcalls! | |
| Jennifer Tisdale | January 11, 2025 | Join The Stoop at The Green Room on Saturday, January 11th for a night of tales about getting duped and deceived. | |
| Stacy | January 11, 2025 | Join The Stoop at The Green Room on Saturday, January 11th for a night of tales about getting duped and deceived. | |
| James Frank at Cons and Catfish: Stories about getting hooked on the wrong line. | January 11, 2025 | Join The Stoop at The Green Room on Saturday, January 11th for a night of tales about getting duped and deceived. | |
| Leonard Vandegraaff at Cons and Catfish: Stories about getting hooked on the wrong line. | January 11, 2025 | Join The Stoop at The Green Room on Saturday, January 11th for a night of tales about getting duped and deceived. | |
| Joe Jackson at Cons and Catfish: Stories about getting hooked on the wrong line. | January 11, 2025 | Join The Stoop at The Green Room on Saturday, January 11th for a night of tales about getting duped and deceived. | |
| Jessica Henkin: The Road Less Traveled | |||
| Tenisha Dotstry: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | ||
| Matt Storrs: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | ||
| Kelly Christ: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | ||
| Harper: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | ||
| Mia Capan: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | ||
| Megan Elcrat: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | ||
| Zoe Bell: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | ||
| Mike Quindlen: Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | ||
| Christina and Edward Sledge: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | ||
| Bailey O’Maille: Creating Art, Creating Change | November 14, 2024 | “Creating Art, Creating Change” an evening of uplifting narratives of artists and activists who are harnessing the transformative power of art and storytelling to foster healing and a sense of | |
| Pierre Benu: Creating Art, Creating Change | November 14, 2024 | “Creating Art, Creating Change” an evening of uplifting narratives of artists and activists who are harnessing the transformative power of art and storytelling to foster healing and a sense of | |
| Tavia Lafolette: Creating Art, Creating Change | November 14, 2024 | “Creating Art, Creating Change” an evening of uplifting narratives of artists and activists who are harnessing the transformative power of art and storytelling to foster healing and a sense of | |
| Tim Delvin: Office Space | November 13, 2014 | Join us for an all-audience show about cubicles, co-workers, bosses, and gettin’ paid (or fired!). | |
| Dawn Allette: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Host Aaron Henkin and The Stoop radio players are back with a show about walking down the aisle that will have you rolling in the aisle. We’ve got old-time sketch Quick tid bit about a man and his expererience with lobe-married on april 1st | love |
| Ricki Baker: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Host Aaron Henkin and The Stoop radio players are back with a show about walking down the aisle that will have you rolling in the aisle. We’ve got old-time sketch Quick tid bit about a man and his expererience with lobe-married on april 1st | love |
| Don Palmer: The Stoop Says “I do!” | June 9, 2011 | Host Aaron Henkin and The Stoop radio players are back with a show about walking down the aisle that will have you rolling in the aisle. We’ve got old-time sketch Quick tid bit about a man and his expererience with lobe-married on april 1st | love |
| Faith Ward: Gimme Shelter | February 7, 2011 | Stories about finding, creating, and losing a home In partnership with “Earl’s Place” A woman talks about her childhood losing her home and how her moms attempts to keep their family together allowed her to live a “normal” life with financial struggles | homelessness |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Sens: Believe it or Not | October 1, 2012 | |||
| Ana Goldseker: The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show | December 14, 2009 | |||
| Anastasia Bezius: First Times | May 14, 2013 | Story about going to Greece as a 12-year old for her grandmother’s funeral | ||
| Andi Tucker: Catastrophe! | November 6, 2019 | story about son getting into a car accident with her car | accident, car, phone | |
| Andre Miller: (Re)Creation Stories | June 7, 2007 | Story about training to become a wrestler to spite his abusive father | abuse, fathers and sons, knife, physical strength, wrestling | |
| Andrea Brown: Crossing Borders | July 30, 2013 | Peace Corps volunteer in the Highlands of Madascar | ||
| Andrea Chamblee: Movers and Shakers | March 4, 2020 | Became an anti gun activist after her husband was murdered in the Capital Gazette attacks | activism, guns, loss, pain, republicans, social media, widow | |
| Andrea Schanbacher: What I Did for Love | February 15, 2007 | a sweet naive girl from a working-class Philly neighborhood falls in love with the bad boy and eventually marries him | camp, high school, moving, New Kids on the Block, philly, pregnancy, sweetheart | |
| Andrea Seabrook: Silk Road | June 10, 2016 | Woman recounts move back into America with a marijuana-dusted vehicle. | border patrol, college, drugs, fraud, independence, marijuana, Mexico, mistakes, moving, sexual threats, volkswagen | |
| Andrea Seabrook: Under One Roof | April 20, 2006 | Living in Mexico City with her gay friend and boyfriend | gay friends, Mexico City, youth | |
| Andrea Seabrook: Under the Influence | October 10, 2011 | |||
| Andrew Hazlett: Eureka! | May 20, 2013 | |||
| Andrew Stephenson: Kitchen Confidential | ||||
| Andrew Verrier: Guilty | November 21, 2013 | |||
| Andy Levy: Trials and Tribulations | April 1, 2015 | Andy Levy recounts the time he represented his parents in a jury trial. | ||
| Andy Parsley: Out of Stigma’s Shadow | May 21, 2019 | story about overcomng OCD | 666, christianity, counting, hell, mental health, OCD, Red Hot Chili Peppers, therapy | |
| Angela Guss: And Then I Got High | April 22, 2015 | |||
| Angie Elliott: Coming Out Stories | September 24, 2015 | |||
| Angie: It’s Complicated | November 15, 2018 | Story about finding love in her Hampden neighbor | ||
| Ann Bracken: On Drugs | April 19, 2018 | A woman who was taking a lot of drugs to deal with migraines and depression becomes drug free after working with an energy healer | car accident, energy, essential oils, methodone, migraines, oxycotin, prescription drugs | |
| Ann Loar Brooks: Holidays from Hell, Part Deux | December 10, 2007 | Story about finding bongos in her mom’s closet for Christmas | ||
| Ann Loar Brooks: Love Hurts | February 9, 2009 | A women’s fairytale marriage ends up as an abusive one and when she leaves she takes his microwave | abuse, cinderella, fairytales, marriage | |
| Anna : Abortion is Autonomy | August 26, 2022 | |||
| Anna Beidelman: My Favorite Film | June 23, 2017 | Being able to see an R-rated move as a 17-year old | teenagers | |
| Anna Ditkoff: Corpus | September 24, 2007 | Story about getting into an accident that resulted in her not being able to move for months while she recovered in her parents house as a teenager | back, car accident, high school, injury, moving back home, parents | |










