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Stoop Storytelling

Stoop Storytelling

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Each Stoop show features seven storytellers who get seven minutes each to tell a true personal story about a specific theme.Tales told at The Stoop are heartwarming, horrifying, and hilarious. Stories of love, death, revenge, forgiveness. Failures small and large. Double-crossing and two-timing. Shame and success. Epiphanies that happen just in timeand others that dont. Blood, sweat and tears--and lots of laughs.Stoop storytellers dont read from scripts or notes, but they do collaborate with the Stoop hosts and other Stoop storytellers to shape their tale into a classic, satisfying story structure. An evening at the Stoop is an eclectic mix of true tales artfully told, an event that combines the adrenalin of improv with the resonance of crafted narrative.Stoop storytellers are writers, dog-walkers, scientists, poets, moms, waitresses, TV personalities, taxi drivers, politicians.and you! During each Stoop show, a few lucky audience members will get the chance to tell two-minute stories onstage. And The Stoop is always looking for new storytellers with new stories to tell. If youve got an idea for a story or a theme, contact [email protected]////////////////////////////////// /////////////////Laura Wexler and Jessica Henkin are the founders, curators, and hosts of The Stoop Storytelling Series.Laura Wexler is the author of Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America (Scribner, 2003), and her writing has appeared in various magazines and newspapers. Shes a senior editor at Style Magazine and teaches classes in memoir and literary journalism in the part-time graduate program in writing at Johns Hopkins University.Jessica Henkin has a master's degree in special education from Johns Hopkins University and serves as an autism specialist for Baltimore County public schools. She hones her theatrical improvisation skills, first developed with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Manhattan, with the Baltimore Improv Group.

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Member Since: 6/20/2006
Band Website: stoopstorytelling.com
Band Members: Marty Bass/ Laura Lippman/ Gary Vikan/ Max Weiss/ Charles Cohen/ Shannon Dunn/ Valerie Perez-Schere/ Rupert Wondolowski/ Kat Hudson/ Matt Fisher/ Kristi Birch/ Jahipster/ Andrea Seabrook/ Marc Steiner/ Catharine Robertson/ Sunni Khalid/ Emily Flake/ Jill Blum/ Heather Moyer/ Jim Mancini/ Lee Boot/ Trixie Little/ Robert Pelrine/ Jim Magruder/ Prescott Gaylord/ Sarah Achenbach/ Therese Lynch/ Bridget Caviolla/ Liz Richardson/ Dave Wurtzel/ Helen Shafer/ Andrea Schanbacher/ Allison Brown/ Richard Ford/ Rosalia Scalia/ Charlie Wilhem/ Josh Granger/ Mark Eisendrath/ Femi the dri fish/ Brian Flanagan/ Mike Subelsky/ Tim Paggi/ Ellis Marsalis/ Brenda Wolf Smith/ Herman Williams/ Cranston Dize/ Tracy Wahl/ Jael Freedman/ Avi Decter
Influences: The Moth - NYC/ Porchlight - San Fran/ Ira Glass/ Aaron Henkin
Sounds Like: Honest stories
Record Label: Katastatik, Caleb Stine and the Brakemen
Type of Label: None