#Eliza schneider voices series

During her research into accents, she 'visited all the English-speaking countries in the world, conducting more than 7,000 interviews over all.' From the interviews she created a one-woman show called Freedom of Speech in which she tells the stories of 34 people in their voices. After the show got canceled, she replaced Alanna Ubach for the second and third seasons of Beakman's World.įor her college senior thesis, Schneider made a cross-country road tour in a former ambulance studying regional dialects. For the show she was allowed to cast the actors who played her parents.

#Eliza schneider voices series

While in college she continued going to auditions and got the role of Sheila Brentwood in the television series The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys.

She participated in a theater program at Northwestern University's National High School Institute and graduated from UCLA as a world arts and cultures major. By the time she was in the fourth grade she began writing and performing her own plays, because the teacher told her that she would only be allowed to stage a play if she 'wrote, produced, directed.' Four years later she was chosen for a part in Annie Schneider's parents would not let her tour with the troupe after being cast. When she was sixteen, she was in her first musical group, IT'S MY PARTY! From ages 7-20, she went to Jewish summer camp, becoming a counselor, and started performing on stage. She started playing violin, learning the Suzuki method, after seeing El Shenkar.

Her mother was an attorney for the reservation. Her father was a math and drama teacher at the School of Arts High School in Rochester, New York, where she graduated as salutatorian. Schneider spent her formative years on a Chippewa reservation in Bemidji, Minnesota with her two older brothers in a mostly Jewish family.