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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby: Balancing Act | March 1, 2023 | Welcome Women’s History Month with WIBxSTOOP Storytelling | |
| Emily: Balancing Act | March 1, 2023 | Welcome Women’s History Month with WIBxSTOOP Storytelling | |
| Dolly Michira: Balancing Act | March 1, 2023 | Welcome Women’s History Month with WIBxSTOOP Storytelling | |
| Carla Paisley: Balancing Act | March 1, 2023 | Welcome Women’s History Month with WIBxSTOOP Storytelling | |
| Sarenka Smith: Balancing Act | March 1, 2023 | Welcome Women’s History Month with WIBxSTOOP Storytelling Describes her own balancing act of recovery from addiction along with relationships, work, and taking care of herself. | addiction, awareness, recovery |
| Eric Anderson: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | An HIV diagnosis journey includes fear, hope, and friendship | connection, Diagnosis, emotions |
| O’Malley Steuerman: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | the journey and joy a trans person feels after their top surgery | joy, struggle, trans identity |
| Natalie Froman: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | A story of someone struggling with two life-threatening illnesses at once, cancer and an eating disorder | cancer, eating disorder, illness |
| Charles Carter: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | A story about someone who became a professional dancer | professional dancer |
| J. Gavin Heck: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | A Story about someone who found radical self love through divorce | divorce, self-love |
| Katie Hileman: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | A story about a woman who decides to own being a fat person in unexpected ways | bodies, fatness |
| Dr. Joanne Martin: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | One of the founders of the National Great Blacks in Wax museum tells the story of how and why her and husband started the museum in Baltimore | Black History, founders, museum |
| Christine Harazim: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | Getting women comfortable in their bodies as a boudoir photographer | boudoir, empowering, women's bodies |
| Carla Paisley: Every Body Has a Story | February 6, 2023 | Black woman giving birth to her last child with the help of a black doula and support system that supported her the best way possible | birth story, black doula, motherhood |
| Brian Jolles: Neighbors | September 27, 2024 | Join The Stoop at The Green Room for an evening of true, personal tales about the people in your neighborhood!With musical guests, Father of the Year! | Brian Jolles |
| Them/They Ty: Neighbors | They/Them Ty | ||
| Marc Unger: Neighbor | September 27, 2024 | Join The Stoop at The Green Room for an evening of true, personal tales about the people in your neighborhood!With musical guests, Father of the Year! | Marc Unger |
| Eric: Neighbors | Eric | ||
| Erin: Neighbors | Erin | ||
| Roseanna: Neighbors | Roseanna | ||
| Thomas Rudis: Neighbors | Thomas Rudis | ||
| Heather Moyer: Neighbors | Heather Moyer | ||
| Rabbi Ilan: Keepers of the Culture | September 22, 2024 | The Stoop Storytelling Series will present “Keepers of Culture: Stories about people who inspire and enlighten” on Saturday, September 21st and Sunday, September 22nd at the Maryland Folk Festival in | |
| Chief Norris: Keepers of the Culture | September 22, 2024 | The Stoop Storytelling Series will present “Keepers of Culture: Stories about people who inspire and enlighten” on Saturday, September 21st and Sunday, September 22nd at the Maryland Folk Festival in | |
| Oleh Voloshyn: Keepers of the Culture | September 22, 2024 | The Stoop Storytelling Series will present “Keepers of Culture: Stories about people who inspire and enlighten” on Saturday, September 21st and Sunday, September 22nd at the Maryland Folk Festival in | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tecla Tesnau | February 20, 2026 | |||
| Teddy: Mark Me Present | June 17, 2016 | Man discusses how illiteracy impacts all aspects of a life while recounting having to help a student with some personal text messages. | ESL, illiteracy, refugees, Strong City Baltimore, trust | |
| Tei Pearson: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | story about being addicted to prescription drugs while being a counselor | airplane, black, prescription drugs, rehab, therapist | |
| Temi Oni: Not Gonna Work for Me | November 9, 2023 | |||
| Tenisha Dotstry: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | |||
| Teressa: Order up! | January 15, 2013 | Women tells her best and worst tipper stories | serving, tipping | |
| Terri and Grace Core: Parenthood | A women takes in her sisters daughter and raises her and the two of them tell the story of the eventual adoption of her daughter. | family | ||
| Terri Diener: Animal Tales | September 22, 2008 | |||
| Terry Nguyen | March 19, 2026 | |||
| Terry Nguyen: BRAINsPARK | story about her positive experience emigranting to US during the Vietnam War | Chase Manhattan, kindness, Vietnam, war | ||
| Terry Sapp: All Stars | May 16, 2024 | |||
| Terry Sapp: Crossing Borders | July 30, 2013 | |||
| Terry Sapp: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Terry Sapp: What Makes Your Smile | July 1, 2010 | |||
| Terry Sapp: You Want Fries With That? | March 30, 2009 | Art school student needing money becomes a maid in San Francisco and tells the story of how the hilarious and challenging interactions with the people he worked for altered his | funny, maid, misunderstanding, self defeat, starving artist | |
| Terrylynn Tyrell: Coming to America | April 7, 2008 | A story about a women’s troubles getting racially profiled at airports because she is black, single, female and travels a lot. | airport security, race, racial profiling, travel | |
| The Banner! | February 20, 2026 | |||
| Them/They Ty: Neighbors | They/Them Ty | |||
| Theo Hill: Out of Stigma’s Shadow | May 21, 2019 | story about overcoming homelessness and substance abuse | addiction, alcoholism, college, homelessness, keys, military | |
| Therese Lynch: Holidays from Hell | December 7, 2006 | Story about how a grandmother uses mouth-to-mouth to rescucitate a family pet bird. | bird, Christmas, CPR, dating, mothers, pets | |
| They/Them Ty | December 11, 2025 | |||
| They/Them Ty: B-More Proud | June 27, 2024 | |||
| Thiru Vignarajah: Trials and Tribulations | April 1, 2015 | Story about how a shooting lead to retaliation in the form of randomly shooting a group of boys who lived near the original person targeted. Three were shot and recovered. | ||
| Thom Hawkins: Keep Calm and ____! | February 23, 2018 | A man in a figure drawing class finds his calling as a comic nude model. AWESOME | comedy, gimmick, weird job, yoda | |
| Thomas Dotstry | June 20, 2025 | |||
