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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liz: Failing Up | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Joy Kika: Failing Up | March 6, 2024 | Story about being laid off by a failing company | |
| Les: Failing Up | March 6, 2024 | ||
| Stacy Deems: Leap of Faith | February 8, 2024 | Jumping out of a plane | |
| 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 | |
| Story Title | Story Date | Story Description | Story Keywords | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wil Hylton: The Story Behind the Story | September 24, 2016 | |||
| Will Carey: Creation Stories | April 19, 2010 | Story about finding out his best friend dated the woman he loved. Created a mix tape | ||
| Will Carey: O Little Town of Baltimore | December 20, 2010 | |||
| Will Hines: Taking a Leap | January 6, 2018 | Has a Beatles podcast. Decided to record an episode in Abbey Road studios while teaching an improv workshop in London | Beatles, Buskers, cat sounds, Colin Ratliff, Got to Get you into my life, improv, Lady Madonna, London, piano, podcast | |
| 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 | |||
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