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Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell how race has colored, shaped, and affected their lives. In partnership with Open Society Institute—Baltimore.

Race

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Storytellers

David Ross Sound writer, performance poet, retired Russian spy

David Schwartz Sound instructional designer

Dana Moore Sound Of Counsel at Venable LLP, Chair of the Baltimore City Board of Ethics

Paulo Gregory Harris Sound inventor, instigator

Charisse Nichols Sound promotions director, Center Stage

Meshelle Sound The Indie Mom of Comedy

Congressman Elijah Cummings Representative for Maryland's 7th District

Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin Hosts

Patchen Mortimer Sound audience storyteller

Barbara Wilgus Sound audience storyteller

Netta Gurari Sound audience storyteller

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell.

Holiday

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Jim V. Sound teacher, cyclist

Susan Anthony Sound marketing and PR maven

Ana Goldseker Sound nutritionist

Tim Young Sound comedian

Jessica N. Sound teacher

Tracy Gosson Sound audience storyteller

Heather Moyer Sound audience storyteller

Ba Barocca Sound audience storyteller

Arty Hill singer/songwriter

ellen cherry singer/songwriter

Burke Sampson musician

E. J. Shaull-Thompson musician

Dave Hadley musician

Jessica Henkin Stoop co-founder, badass

Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin Stoop co-founders and hosts

Caleb Stine singer/songwriter

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of “Big Night” style masterpieces, waiting tables, and unholy cases of heartburn at the family dinnertable.

Kitchen

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Storytellers

Erica Chung Sound school psychologist

Gregory Hartzler-Miller Sound lifestyle experimenter

John Shields Sound Chef, Author, Restaurant Spiritual Director

Mary Rose Madden Sound Public Radio Producer

Tony Geraci Sound Director of Food and Nutrition for Baltimore City Public Schools

De'Von Brown Sound student, motivational speaker, up-and-coming film director, talk show host, musician, one of the "Boys of Baraka"

Chrissy Ferrera Sound artist, Starbucks diarist

Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin Stoop founders and hosts

Boister band

Theresa Columbus audience storyteller

Cait Hanlon audience storyteller

Ba Barocca audience storyteller

Anne Watts Boister

Laura Wexler host

Jessica Henkin host

Scooter Holt the Hunter S. Thompson of Baltimore's bar scene

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of first jobs, first time away from home, and first time….er…well….you know! 

First

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Storytellers

Rebecca Quinn Sound advancement assistant, Society of St. Sulpice

Joe Mooney Sound aerospace engineer

Ethel Weld Sound resident physician, University of Maryland Medical Center

Shindana Cooper Sound poet and storyteller

Audrey Kay Sound staff accountant, Agora Publishing

Ab Logan Sound English Teacher, Boy's Latin

Ed Norris Sound host of the "Ed Norris Show"

Mimi Dietrich Sound Quilter

Carmen Brock Sound audience storyteller

Dawn Douglas Sound audience storyteller

Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin hosts

The Motorettes band

On July 9, 10 and 11, The Stoop’s first ever live radio show will feature old-time comedy sketches from our friends at the Baltimore Improv Group, performances from Caleb Stine and the Brakemen, along with local musicians ellen cherry, The 5th L, and Arty Hill, and, of course, the true, personal tales The Stoop is famous for. Storytellers include “The Wire’s” Clarke Peters, First Lady Katie O’Malley, actress Rain Pryor, former “The Simpsons” writer Larry Doyle, and more!
LISTEN TO THE LIVE SHOWS IN THEIR ENTIRETY:
Thursday, Act I
Thursday, Act II
Friday, Act I
Friday, Act II
Saturday, Act I
Saturday, Act II

Radio-1

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JULY 9: Larry Doyle Sound Author of "I Love You, Beth Cooper"; former "Simpsons" writer

JULY 9: Harriet Lynn Sound producer, Heritage Theater Artists' Consortium

JULY 9: Brian Wendell Morton Sound City Paper political columnist and sleight of hand artist

JULY 9: Lauren Bender Sound assistant teacher, artist, twin, and co-director of Narrow House, a publisher of avant-garde poetry, literature, and literary recordings

JULY 10: Katie O'Malley Sound First Lady of Maryland

JULY 10: Jon Aaron Sound teacher

JULY 10: Wayne Larrivey Sound teacher and theater director

JULY 10: Sheri Booker Sound poet, ex-funeral home lady

JULY 10: Amanda Krotki Sound content editor, The Baltimore Sun

JULY 11: Rain Pryor Sound actress

JULY 11: Clarke Peters Sound actor on "The Wire"

JULY 11: Pamela White Sound Circuit Court judge

JULY 11: Michael Ziccardi Sound law clerk

July 11: Kelly Meekins Sound genetic epidemiologist

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in team.

Good

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Josh Fruhlinger Sound Blogger and editor

Kelly Keenan Sound writer

Dave Zang Sound professor of sports history

Lionel Foster Sound Family and Community Engagement Assistant, Baltimore City Public School

Joe Challmes Sound freelance sports writer

Molly O'Donnell Sound editor and writer

Shodekeh Sound professional beatboxer and musician

Kevin Van Valkenburg Sound audience storyteller

Michael Ziccardi Sound audience storyteller

Virginia Knowlton Sound audience storyteller

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of McJobs, office politics and working 9 to 5.

Want

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Storytellers

Adriana Kroeller Sound Stylist, colorist

Terry Sapp Sound Public Health Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Baltimore County Department of Health

Jim Meyer Sound Stand up comic

Meghann Shutt Sound holder of every job under the sun

Mark Carter Sound interim executive director, Kids on the Hill

Alonzo Lamont Jr. Sound playwright and information specialist, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Kevin Hoffman Sound CFO of Roots Market and the rest of the Conscious Corner

Kim Box Sound audience storyteller

Melinda Walker Sound audience storyteller

Beth Bugnaski Sound audience storyteller

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large.

Love

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Storytellers

Marc Unger Sound comedian

LaDawn Black Sound 92Q relationship expert

Janet Gilbert Sound humor columnist

Fernando Quijano III Sound writer

Katherine Gorman Sound producer, WYPR's "Maryland Morning"

Ann Loar Brooks Sound celebrant

Michael Cook and Angela Shaeffer Sound freelance writer and traveler extraordinaire

Jessica Henkin and Laura Wexler hosts

Esther Coffin Miller Sound audience storyteller

Vicki Bringman Sound audience storyteller

Gail Rosen Sound audience storyteller

It’s The Stoop….Supersized! Seven storytellers will tell tales of holiday hi-jinx. Local musicians Abby Mott, Salim, and Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack of Wye Oak will join the Stoop House Band, Caleb Stine and the Brakemen, onstage. Baltimore’s famed Westsiders Marching Band will be making a ruckus. Plus karaoke caroling and more!

Holiday-web-art

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Kevin KAL Kallaugher Sound editorial cartoonist

Mary Alice Yeskey Sound "Ace of Cakes" star and manager of Charm City Cakes

Rafael Alvarez Sound writer and raconteur

Violet Glaze Sound writer and film critic

Maria Broom Sound actress on HBO's "The Wire" and "The Corner", dancer, teacher

Arthur Magida Sound writer

Sheila Dixon Sound Mayor of Baltimore

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell how the abundance or absence of cold hard cash can cause change and conflict.

Money

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Storytellers

Aaron Henkin Sound radio producer

Denis Nash Sound transportation broker

Peter Schmader Sound owner of El Rancho Grande

Jennifer Stevens Sound owner, Clean Bee Cleaning

Joe Challmes Sound audience storyteller

Janet Gilbert Sound audience storyteller

Damian Jones Sound audience storyteller

Brent Halliburton Sound head of new product development for Platform-A

Nancy Murray Sound realtor, director, celebrity impersonator

Shaun Adamec Sound spokesperson for Governor Martin O'Malley

Lilia Rissman Sound ringbearer

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to talk about the pleasures and pain of life among creatures.

Animal

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Terri Diener Sound animal communicator

Corinne Parks Sound animal rehabilitator

Alan Rosenberg Sound high school teacher and drama club director

Chuck Ochlech Sound tournament director, Baltimore Association of Rat Fisherman

Patrick Smithwick Sound horse trainer, teacher and writer

Beth Manning Sound dolphin trainer, National Aquarium

Anne Mannix Sound audience storyteller

Beth Bugnaski Sound audience storyteller

Stephanie Moss ringmaster

Laura Wexler and Aaron Henkin hosts

Mark Miazga Sound audience storyteller

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of camp pranks, camp romances, and very scary ghost stories.

06

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Storytellers

Sarah Richards Sound writer and radio journalist

Timmy Reed Sound trolley enthusiast

Gary Godbey Sound Red Tree professional

Luke Clippinger Sound Assistant State's Attorney

Michael Paulson Sound high school English teacher/amateur gadfly

Fred Lohr Sound attorney

Scott Carberry Sound restaurant professional

Jay Graham Sound audience storyteller

Julie Scharper Sound audience storyteller

Roy Taff Sound audience storyteller

Donna DeLorenzo Sound Ring Master

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales about leaving, arriving, and struggling to make a new home in this strange place called Baltimore.

Presented in partnership with The Jewish Museum of Maryland’s Second Annual Herbert H. & Irma B. Risch Memorial Program on Immigration

04

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Storytellers

Terrylynn Tyrell Sound special education advocacy and policy consultant

William Wright Sound artist, and therefore chauffeur

Jason Gerson Sound public health researcher

Mario Rolando Diaz Sound driver

Meera Kapoor Sound student nurse

Inge Weinberger Sound former director, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

Mamadou Sy Sound program coordinator, Baltimore Resettlement Center

Peter Nobel Sound catering director

Martha Weiman Sound audience storyteller

Lisa O'Reilly Sound audience storyteller

Maryrose Whelley Sound audience storyteller

Sara Reilly ring thrower

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to talk about the untruths woven into the DNA of every family.

02

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Storytellers

Keith Gayler Sound policy wonk, pirate aficionado

Barbara DeCesare Sound reluctant paralegal

Lisa Libowitz Sound writer, storyteller, and woman of a thousand identities

Barbara Dale Sound illustrator, taste expander and creative baker

Justin Credible Sound Baltimore's Best Drag King 2007

Sarah J Sound crafty chick

Steve Luxenberg Sound writer, Washington Post editor

Maggie Hadley Sound audience storyteller

Brenda Neuman-Sheldon audience storyteller

Pamela White Sound audience storyteller

Joe Yingling Sound ring master

Last year’s Holiday show featured tales of mass vomiting, robbed roles in the church pageant, and a Christmas morning in which one storyteller wore nothing but a Santa hat. What good tidings will this season bring?

12

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Storytellers

Elizabeth Adamec dog trainer

Linda Perlstein Sound writer and former elf

Michelle Mutert Sound commercial sales director, Kitchens by Design

Jon Harding Sound grant writer and graduate student

Jonathan Scott Fuqua Sound young adult author and novelist

Sara Hill Sound instructional designer

David Ettlin Sound longtime Baltimore journalist

Gary Godbey Sound Audience storyteller

Ann Loar Brooks Sound Audience storyteller

Kate Lupin Sound Audience storyteller

From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives.

11

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Storytellers

Sandy Asirvatham Sound singer, pianist, songwriter

Dovile Mark Sound stuntwoman

Ken Jackson Sound host of WYPR's Big Band show, "In the Mood"

Rahne Alexander Sound songwriter, performer and member of the Degenerettes

Steve Haddad Sound activist, baseball fanatic and budding Buddhist

Felicia "Snoop" Pearson Sound actress on HBO’s “The Wire”

Jason Dove Sound indie rocker, filmmaker, and skateboard company owner.

Laura Cappelli Sound audience storyteller

Keith Gayler Sound audience storyteller

Jeannette Machen Sound audience storyteller

Jessica Henkin co-producer of The Stoop

Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell flesh and blood tales about the glories, guts, and gross-outs of the human form.

09

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Storytellers

Dana Kollmann Sound forensic scientist and former Baltimore County Police CSI

Walter Lomax Sound man wrongfully convicted of murder, freed after 39 years

Anna Ditkoff Sound City Paper Murder Ink-er

Phil Meeder Sound Mercedes dealer

Hilary Hansen Sound writer, mom and serial surgical patient

Stacey Barich Sound pin-up girl photographer

Mike "The Persecutor" Paschall Sound professional boxer

Jenny Schnick, Audience storyteller Sound

Mike Paulson, Audience storyteller Sound

Stephen Nunns, Audience storyteller Sound

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 tell tales of lives re-envisioned and re-made.

06

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Storytellers

Diane Finlayson Sound WYPR host and yoga guru

Mick the Pirate Sound Privateer and former stuntman

Asa Sound Student and part-time electrician

Joanne Juskus Sound Singer/songwriter

Hannah Feldman Sound Baltimore Magazine senior editor

Andre Miller Sound Co-creator and co-star of A&E series Random 1

It’s an evening of black eyes, wounded hearts, and long-held grudges when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of anger, resentment—and maybe forgiveness.

04

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Storytellers

Mike Hughes Sound Writer, designer, and performer

Dale Marie Prenatt Sound Volunteer coordinator and Appalachian poet

Shelly Blake Sound Songwriter, teacher, and ex-wrestler

Niki Lee Performance artist

Richard Gorelick Sound City Paper restaurant critic

Laurel Clark Sound Graduate student

David Simon Sound Creator of HBO's "The Wire"

It’s a night of extremes when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of devotion and delusion.

02

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Storytellers

Andrea Schanbacher Sound Special Educator

Liz Richardson Sound Blogger

Richard Ford Sound Operations manager, Andersen Windows

Rosalia Scalia Sound Writer and mother

Allison Brown Sound Teacher

Helen Shafer Sound Izi Medical Products and Shafer Center CEO

Dave Wurzel Sound Acupuncturist, interventionist, and engineer

Hear how the “other half” celebrates i.e. survives) “the most wonderful time of the year” when 7 storytellers get 7 minutes each to tell heart-warming (and blood-curdling) holiday yarns.

12

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Trixie Little Sound Burlesque artist

Robert Pelrine Sound Pastoral counselor

Jim Magruder Sound Writer

Prescott Gaylord Sound Green builder

Therese Lynch Sound Etch-a-sketch artist and Speech and Language Pathologist

Bridget Cavaiola Sound Teacher

Sarah Achenbach Sound Writer, mom, and wrapping paper addict

An all-male line-up share their scariest stories!

10

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Storytellers

Mike Subelsky Sound Navy Lieutenant

Femi "the dri fish" Sound Performance Poet

Brian Flanagan Sound Baltimore City firefighter

Charlie Wilhelm Sound Wiseguy-turned-FBI-informant

Tim Paggi Sound Playwright and copywriter

Josh Granger Sound Film and TV producer

It’s “Back to School Night” when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of class clowns, teachers’ pets, education-as-liberation and attending the school of hard knocks.

09

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Storytellers

Ellis Marsalis III Sound Poet and photographer

Brenda Wolf Smith Sound Restaurateur

Herman Williams Sound Former “Montel Williams” producer and sculptor

Cranston Dize Sound Baltimore City teacher

Tracy Wahl Sound National Public Radio producer

Jael Freedman Sound Manicurist

Avi Decter Sound Director of The Jewish Museum of Maryland

Planes, trains, and automobiles. Adventures and misadventures. Meeting strangers, making friends, parting ways. Missing connections, falling off the map. Discovering new worlds—and yourself. Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales about the power of traveling to disorient, amaze, reveal—and, most importantly, to transform.

06

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Storytellers

Emily Flake Sound Lulu Eightball cartoonist

Lee Boot Sound Filmmaker

Sunni Khalid Sound WYPR news editor

Catharine Robertson Sound Information Architect

Heather Moyer Sound Disaster News Network reporter

Jim Mancini Sound Speech and Language Pathologist

Jill Blum Sound Graphic Designer

A match made in heaven morphs into the marriage from hell. Grandma moves in with the fam—and nothing is ever the same. Your college roommate loves Black Sabbath; you prefer Enya. Your new cat keeps peeing on your pillow—until you give her Prozac. In “Under one Roof: Stories about Living Together (or trying to),” seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin true tales about cohabitation’s tangled webs.

04

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Storytellers

Andrea Seabrook Sound NPR Correspondent

Marc Steiner Sound Radio Host

JaHipster Sound Scientist and performance poet

Rupert Wondolowski Sound Poet, painter, and bookstore owner

Kat Hudson Sound Freelance writer

Matt Fisher Sound Dog walker

Kristi Birch Sound Cat lover and writer

It’s an evening of blood, tears, mishaps, screw-ups, and shattered dreams when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell true tales of loserdom in The Stoop Storytelling Series premier, “Legends of the Fall: Stories about Failure.”
Stoop founders Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin host a lineup that includes crime novelist Laura Lippman, WJZ-TV morning host Marty Bass, Walters Art Museum director Gary Vikan and Baltimore magazine senior editor Max Weiss.

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Storytellers

Laura Lippman Sound Writer

Gary Vikan Sound Walter's Art Museum Director

Marty Bass Sound WJZ-TV morning host

Charles Cohen Sound Freelance writer

Shannon Dunn Sound Freelance writer

Max Weiss Sound Baltimore Magazine Editor

Valarie Perez-Schere Sound Performance artist and mother of three