Lea Thau

Lea Thau is a Peabody Award winning producer and director and the host and creator of Strangers, a KCRW and PRX/Radiotopia podcast.
Thau formerly served as executive and creative director of the live storytelling organization The Moth for a decade, where she created The Moth Podcast and The Moth Radio Hour. The Moth Radio Hour is carried by over 250 radio stations around the U.S.
Thau is also a storytelling teacher and coach. She has directed, produced or executive produced over 1,000 live storytelling shows around the U.S. and has worked with hundreds of people one-on-one (including Ethan Hawke, Margaret Cho, and Marc Maron) to develop their stories. She also teaches storytelling to organizations. Her prior clients include Google, Nike, and Time, Inc.
Originally from Denmark, she first came to the U.S. in 1996 as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York City. She now lives and works in Los Angeles.
Strangers
Lea Thau's podcast, Strangers, describes itself as "an empathy shot in your arm, featuring true stories about the people we meet, the connections we make, the heartbreaks we suffer, the kindnesses we encounter, and those frightful moments when we discover that WE aren't even who we thought we were." Strangers started in conjunction with KCRW's Independent Producer Project and is now part of PRX's Radiotopia collective.
Love Hurts
One of the most popular Strangers series is the "Love Hurts" series, which chronicles Thau's deeply personal exploration of why she's still single, four years after her fiance left her when she was eight months pregnant. The third episode in the series, "Love Hurts 3," was named by Slate Magazine as one of "The Top 25 Best Podcast Episodes Ever."

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