About
The Stoop Storytelling Series is a Baltimore-based organization that empowers individuals and builds community through the sharing of personal stories.
Stoop live shows and podcast feature everyday people telling the extraordinary true tales of their lives, and our storytelling workshops offer skills and support for everyone to share their tales.
Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin created The Stoop in 2006. Since then, it has become a beloved Baltimore institution. Nearly 4,000 people have participated in The Stoop — including “big names” and everyday folks. The Stoop has drawn crowds as large as 1,400 and been featured in The Washington Post and The New York Times.
Stoop Shows
Stoop live shows are intimate and surprising, wonderful and weird, hilarious and heartbreaking. Stoop stories are not memorized, performed, or read. They’re shared.
As well as Stoop mainstage shows, we present Second Stoop open mic shows and Special Events with partner organizations.
We invite everyone to submit a story idea. Just click on the “submit” link on one of our show pages. We provide structured coaching and support to help you develop and share your story.
If you’d like to bring The Stoop to your venue or organization, email info@stoopstorytelling.com.
Got a story to tell that's not related to a current theme? Let us know!
Submit Your StoryJessica Henkin
Executive Producer and Live Show Producer
Jessica Henkin passionate about her family, special education (her day job), Baltimore, keeping her house clean, rescuing strays (both animal and human), finding most things funny—and, of course, storytelling. She has studied and performed improv comedy for more than two decades in both New York City and Baltimore.
Laura Wexler
Executive Producer and Education Director
Laura Wexler is a Baltimore-based writer and producer who creates narrative projects in a variety of mediums and genres. She’s the author of the narrative nonfiction book, Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (Scribner), the co-creator of DINNER PARTY, a virtual reality thriller that premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and the co-writer of PANDORA’S BOX, a one-hour drama pilot sold to Amazon Studios. She’s published journalism in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and recently wrote an episode for season three of Apple TV’s THE MORNING SHOW. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, and is currently writing a docu-play about an infamous 1925 annulment trial.