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The Stoop radio players and storytellers of all kinds take the stage for three live radio show performances about that most curious of institutions: high school.
Live music from Baltimore’s own The Egg Babies Orchestra, Victoria Vox, and The 5th L.
THURSDAY, JUNE 3
FRIDAY, JUNE 4
SATURDAY, JUNE 5
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Storytellers
Victoria Vox ukelele diva
The 5th L hip-hop, spoken word duo
Chris Myers king of the Egg Babies
Stoop Radio Players
Aaron Henkin host
Brian Gilbert
Mike Harris Radio player
Jessica Henkin and Laura Wexler Stoop co-founders and co-hosts
Ron Spencer and Laura Wexler Sound effects team
It’s not “Behind the Music”—it’s “Behind the Muse.” Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the mixed-up and messy process involved in birthing new artistic life forms.
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Storytellers
Matt Hayat
healing artist
Loring Cornish
artist
Breon Gilleran
sculptor
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell how race has colored, shaped, and affected their lives. In partnership with Open Society Institute—Baltimore.
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Storytellers
David Ross
writer, performance poet, retired Russian spy
Paulo Gregory Harris
inventor, instigator
Meshelle
The Indie Mom of Comedy
Congressman Elijah Cummings
Representative for Maryland's 7th District
Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin Hosts
December 14, 2009
The Stoop Extreme Holiday Show: Stories of the best, worst, and most memorable celebrations and conflagrations
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to spin stories of holiday heaven and hell.
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Storytellers
Shirley Brewer
poet
Susan Anthony
marketing and PR maven
Ana Goldseker
nutritionist
Dudley Clendinen
writer
Tracy Gosson
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.
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Storytellers
De'Von Brown
student, motivational speaker, up-and-coming film director, talk show host, musician, one of the "Boys of Baraka"
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
September 14, 2009
First Times: Stories of holding your nose, taking the plunge, and living to tell about it
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of first jobs, first time away from home, and first time….er…well….you know!
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Storytellers
Ed Norris
host of the "Ed Norris Show"
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
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Storytellers
JULY 9: Larry Doyle
Author of "I Love You, Beth Cooper"; former "Simpsons" writer
JULY 9: Harriet Lynn
producer, Heritage Theater Artists' Consortium
JULY 9: Brian Wendell Morton
City Paper political columnist and sleight of hand artist
JULY 9: Lauren Bender
assistant teacher, artist, twin, and co-director of Narrow House, a publisher of avant-garde poetry, literature, and literary recordings
JULY 9: Susan Kim
writer
JULY 10: Katie O'Malley
First Lady of Maryland
JULY 10: Sheri Booker
poet, ex-funeral home lady
JULY 10: Amanda Krotki
content editor, The Baltimore Sun
JULY 11: Clarke Peters
actor on "The Wire"
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of riding the bench, winning the gold, and why there is no “I” in team.
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Storytellers
Josh Fruhlinger
Blogger and editor
Joe Challmes
freelance sports writer
Molly O'Donnell
editor and writer
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of McJobs, office politics and working 9 to 5.
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Storytellers
Jim Meyer
Stand up comic
Mark Carter
interim executive director, Kids on the Hill
Alonzo Lamont Jr.
playwright and information specialist, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Kevin Hoffman
CFO of Roots Market and the rest of the Conscious Corner
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of romantic woes small and large.
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Storytellers
LaDawn Black
92Q relationship expert
Janet Gilbert
humor columnist
Jessica Henkin and Laura Wexler hosts
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!
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Storytellers
Kevin KAL Kallaugher
editorial cartoonist
Mary Alice Yeskey
"Ace of Cakes" star and manager of Charm City Cakes
Rafael Alvarez
writer and raconteur
Violet Glaze
writer and film critic
Maria Broom
actress on HBO's "The Wire" and "The Corner", dancer, teacher
Arthur Magida
writer
Sheila Dixon
Mayor of Baltimore
November 10, 2008
Money Changes Everything: Stories about striking it rich, getting by, and going broke
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell how the abundance or absence of cold hard cash can cause change and conflict.
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Storytellers
Aaron Henkin
radio producer
Peter Schmader
owner of El Rancho Grande
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to talk about the pleasures and pain of life among creatures.
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Storytellers
Terri Diener
animal communicator
John Woestendiek
writer
Stephanie Moss ringmaster
Laura Wexler and Aaron Henkin hosts
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of camp pranks, camp romances, and very scary ghost stories.
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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
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Storytellers
William Wright
artist, and therefore chauffeur
Sara Reilly ring thrower
February 11, 2008
Family Secrets: Stories about the Fibs, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies that Bind us Together--and keep us apart.
Seven storytellers get seven minutes each to talk about the untruths woven into the DNA of every family.
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Storytellers
Brenda Neuman-Sheldon audience storyteller
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?
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Storytellers
Elizabeth Adamec dog trainer
Linda Perlstein
writer and former elf
Jonathan Scott Fuqua
young adult author and novelist
From Beethoven to Billie Holiday, Beck to Barney, seven storytellers offer stories about the soundtracks to their lives.
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Storytellers
Sandy Asirvatham
singer, pianist, songwriter
Rahne Alexander
songwriter, performer and member of the Degenerettes
Steve Haddad
activist, baseball fanatic and budding Buddhist
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
actress on HBO’s “The Wire”
Jason Dove
indie rocker, filmmaker, and skateboard company owner.
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.
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Storytellers
Dana Kollmann
forensic scientist and former Baltimore County Police CSI
Anna Ditkoff
City Paper Murder Ink-er
Stacey Barich
pin-up girl photographer
Mike "The Persecutor" Paschall
professional boxer
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.
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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.
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Storytellers
Niki Lee Performance artist
It’s a night of extremes when seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell tales of devotion and delusion.
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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.
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Storytellers
Trixie Little
Burlesque artist
An all-male line-up share their scariest stories!
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Storytellers
Femi "the dri fish"
Performance Poet
Mark Eisendrath
Artist
Charlie Wilhelm
Wiseguy-turned-FBI-informant
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.
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Storytellers
Brenda Wolf Smith
Restaurateur
Avi Decter
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.
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Storytellers
Emily Flake
Lulu Eightball cartoonist
Lee Boot
Filmmaker
Sunni Khalid
WYPR news editor
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.
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Storytellers
Andrea Seabrook
NPR Correspondent
Marc Steiner
Radio Host
JaHipster
Scientist and performance poet
Rupert Wondolowski
Poet, painter, and bookstore owner
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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