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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jessica Best: Leap of Faith | February 8, 2024 | Leap of faith to believe in Christianity | |
| Len Van De Graaf: Leap of Faith | February 8, 2024 | Teaching in the Bronx | |
| Nancy Davis: Leap of Faith | Moving to Russia | ||
| Dan Van Allen: Leap of Faith | February 8, 2024 | hitchhiking on planes | |
| Sophia Garber: Leap of Faith | February 8, 2024 | Hiking to fundraise for her friend with cancer | |
| Jewell Johnson: Leap of Faith | February 8, 2024 | Following her dreams to move to NYC | |
| Julie Scharper: Leap of Faith | February 8, 2024 | Following her girl friend to Peace Corps and falling in love with teaching | |
| Barbara Wilgus: Leap of Faith | February 8, 2024 | Writing a water ballet about Jeff Goldblum | |
| Unique: Transportation | Great bus story with poem | ||
| Desmond: Transportation | |||
| Ellen: Transportation | |||
| Darryl: Transportation | Bike advocacy | ||
| Bakari: Transportation | |||
| Megan: Transportation | Sweet story about the bus | ||
| Isaac: Transportation | Story about migraines not allowing him to drive | ||
| Kathleen: Over It | January 10, 2024 | Story about leaving nursing | |
| Christy: Over It | January 10, 2024 | Story about her father taking her into the ocean at night | |
| Cat: Over It | January 10, 2024 | ||
| Miriam: Over It | January 10, 2024 | ||
| Dominic: Over It | January 10, 2024 | Story about an akward hook up/one night stand | |
| Clare: Over It | January 10, 2024 | Story about her father helping her during a stressful move prior to his passing | |
| Rebecca: Over It | January 10, 2024 | Story about complicated relationship with her mother | |
| Siobahn: Over It | January 10, 2024 | Story about complicated relationship with her sister | |
| Michael Ricigliano: Over It | January 10, 2024 | Story about meeting Mike Mussina | |
| Diane Finlayson: (Re)Creation Stories | June 7, 2007 | Tales About Crisis, Change, and Rebirth Phoenix from the flames. Butterfly from the chrysalis. It’s a night of transformation at The Stoop when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Will Marbury: Wit and Wisdom | April 6, 2024 | |||
| Will Young | December 11, 2025 | |||
| William Egginton: Tales from the Crypt | October 24, 2022 | |||
| William Koyota: Coming Out Stories | September 24, 2015 | |||
| William Wright: Coming to America | April 7, 2008 | Story about the first 24 hours of his traveling from England to America to take a job at a record shop in Pikesville in the 80s | ||
| Windy Cooler: These are the People in Our Neighborhood | June 23, 2023 | |||
| Wolf Bindu: Invisible Labor | October 15, 2020 | story about being a healer | anger, healer, shaman | |
| Wolf Bindu: That 80s Show | February 22, 2018 | Flying on People’s Airline in the early 80s | cane, flight, fur, people's airline, pimp, stalled, stuck, tarmac | |
| Woman: Live and Learn | Story of finding work in america as African immigrant | |||
| Women of Destruction | bathroom | |||
| Women of Destruction: A Beautiful, Terrible Thing | January 23, 2020 | story about bathrooms on tours | bathroom | |
| Yana Demireva: Guilty | November 21, 2013 | |||
| Yitzy Halon: Workin’ It | May 3, 2018 | A man who wanted to be a rabbi works his way back up in socieity after he divorces and has a change in faith | dunkin donuts, Jewish, judiasm, orthodox, rabbi, real estate, self-made | |
| Zach Rosen: Night Life | November 3, 2021 | |||
| Zach Rosen: Real Life Rom-Coms | February 7, 2022 | falling in love with RA at Yale | ||
| Zach Ruchkin: Of Substance | September 22, 2020 | story about antidepressant and weed causing bipolar | bipolar, manic, weed, zoloft | |
| Zachary: Password, please! | June 25, 2015 | |||
| Zebediah Drinkwater: Fight Club | October 10, 2016 | |||
| Zeke Cohen: The Good Fight | September 15, 2017 | |||
| Zeke Cohen: The Good Fight | September 15, 2017 | |||
| Zoe Bell: The Stoop Holiday Hootenanny 2024 | December 3, 2024 | |||
| Zoe Bell: Wit and Wisdom | April 6, 2024 | |||
| Zori G: On Purpose | June 20, 2019 | story about discovering ham radio and electonics | electronics, engineer, paper route, radio, Vietnam | |
| Zory Glaser: The Good Fight | September 15, 2017 | |||
| Zory Glaser: The Good Fight | September 15, 2017 | |||
Jabari Lyles: On Purpose
Story Date: June 20, 2019
story about early memory of being outed...Read MoreJack Neill: Hair!
Story Date: April 24, 2014
A redhead lets his hair grow long to rebel against the nuns. Then he gets...Read More
