Hiya! I'm Lauren Ober. I'm a podcast host and producer in Washington D.C. I've hosted a bunch of shows. Maybe you've heard one of them!
This is my official bio!
Lauren Ober is a podcast host and producer. Basically, she makes things for you to listen to while you’re folding your laundry. She is currently the host and executive producer of The Loudest Girl In The World from Pushkin Industries and iHeart Media. It’s a show all about Lauren’s later-in-life autism diagnosis. Warning: there are some deluxe feelings in that show. Lulu Miller, host of Radiolab, called it “a masterpiece.”
Lauren is also the host and executive producer of Fine Gorilla Person from Topic Studios and Audible. The New Yorker wrote that the show is for people who “want to feel newly furious at all the ways our culture demands that monkeys dance for our enjoyment.”
Before that, she hosted and produced Spectacular Failures from APMStudios. The show was one of TIME magazine’s top 10 podcasts of 2019 and was named best business podcast at the 2020 New York Festivals Radio Awards. Ober also created, hosted and produced NPR’s The Big Listen, a nationally distributed radio broadcast about podcasts.
In a life before hosting, Ober was an award-winning audio reporter and has been heard on shows like This American Life, 99% Invisible and Criminal, as well as all of NPR’s flagship programs. She is a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop, Syracuse University and American University. A proud Pittsburgh native, Lauren currently lives in the 51st state with her silly hound, Davey.
