Lea Thau (born 1971) is a Peabody Award-winning producer and director.
She is the host and producer of the podcast Strangers and the former Executive and Creative Director of The Moth.
[6][7] In December 2001, she became the Executive and Creative Director, a position she held for a decade before departing in April, 2010.
[10] In 2011, Thau created the podcast Strangers, which she describes as "stories about people we meet, the connections we make, the heartbreaks we suffer, the kindness we encounter, and the frightful moments when we discover we aren't even who we thought we were".
[11] Strangers was started with the support of KCRW's Independent Producer Project in 2012, and it joined the Radiotopia podcast network in 2014.