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The Stoop Storytelling Series
Bi-Weekly
Hosted by Jessica Henkin
,
Laura Wexler

The Stoop Storytelling Series is a Baltimore-based live show and podcast that features “ordinary” people sharing the extraordinary, true tales of their lives. It showcases the stories of “ordinary" people, told in front of live audiences as large as 1,400. Stoop stories are weird, wonderful, hilarious, and heartbreaking — and, above all, intimate.

Since its founding in 2006, The Stoop has featured the tales of more than 2,500 people onstage — including notable citizens such as Congressman Elijah Cummings, “Wire” creator David Simon, activist DeRay Mckesson, and Senator Barbara Mikulski. The Stoop has been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlantic Magazine, and The New York Times. Founders Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin host the podcast, which was started in 2015.

The Stoop Storytelling Podcast is hosted by Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin, produced by Maureen Harvie, and distributed by Your Public Studios. Click here to explore The Stoop's podcast archive prior to August 2022.

Latest Episodes
  • Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Tom The Turkey, pictured in 2021. Credit: Anthony Quintano from Mount Laurel, United States, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
    Well, That Wasn't Supposed to Happen
    In honor of the best meal of the year in America, two stories about attempting to make Thanksgiving dinner.
  • Storyteller Brian Jolles. Photo by Aaron Curtis.
    Me in 1963
    This week on the podcast, two stories about what it was to be a young child in America in the early 1960s.
  • A crow standing on a tree branch in front of the moon. Photo by K Bahr/Flickr Public Domain.
    Spooky Stories
    This week on the podcast, three spooky stories in honor of the season.
  • Storyteller Desaray Smith
    The Hard Work of Becoming
    This week on the podcast, two stories about women redefining themselves.
  • Storyteller Safa. Photo by Aaron Curtis.
    I’m From New York — New York, Canada
    This week on the podcast, an epic tale about how getting your big break can break you.
  • A woman drawing on a chalkboard. Bill Branson (Photographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
    Teaching aka Trial by Fire
    This week on the podcast, two stories about well-intended rookies in the classroom.
  • Work, Life, No Balance
    Our theme this month is "Work, Life, No Balance." Five storytellers share tales about the working world. We hear from a first-time teacher, Captain Quackers, and the king of the castle. Everyone has a story. What’s yours?
  • Water fountain at Newington Armory. Photo by Wyncliffe, (CC0) Public Domain via Flickr.
    Summer Escapades
    This week on a special edition of the Stoop Storytelling Series, six stories set in the steamy heat of summers past.
  • Credit: Chloe Capture/Flickr
    Spies Like Us
    This week on the podcast, two stories about being pegged as the wrong guy.
  • Storyteller Peaches Christ. Photo by Aaron Curtis.
    Best in Show
    This week on the podcast, two incredible souls — and two great performers — share stories that are an object lesson in how to live.
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