Eliza Schneider | |
|---|---|
 Schneider at the 2018 WonderCon | |
| Other names | Blue Girl |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer, dialectologist, playwright, voice artist, dialect coach |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Partner | Roger Ray |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | elizajaneschneidervo |
Eliza Jane Schneider is an American actress, singer, playwright, dialect coach and dialectologist. She has appeared on television and as a voice over actress on video games and animations. She also performs various musical and stage shows.
Schneider spent her formative years on a Chippewa reservation in Bemidji, Minnesota with her two older brothers in a mostly Jewish family. [1] She moved to New York at the age of 8. Her father became a math and drama teacher at the School of Arts High School in Rochester, New York, [2] where she graduated as salutatorian. Her mother was an attorney for the reservation. She started playing violin, which she learned from her grandfather, learning the Suzuki method, [1] after seeing L Shenkar. When she was sixteen, she was in her first musical group, [3] IT'S MY PARTY! [4] From ages 7–20, she went to Jewish summer camp, becoming a counselor, and started performing on stage. 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. [1] She participated in a theater program at Northwestern University's National High School Institute and graduated from UCLA in 1994 as a world arts and cultures major. [5]
While in college she continued going to auditions and got the role of Sheila Brentwood in the television series The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys . For the show she was allowed to cast the actors who played her parents. After the show got canceled, she replaced Alanna Ubach as the assistant/co-host for the second and third seasons of Beakman's World . [6]
For her college senior thesis, Schneider made a cross-country road tour in a former ambulance studying regional dialects. [7] During her research into accents, she "visited all the English-speaking countries in the world, conducting more than 7,000 interviews over all." [1] 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. [8] The various quotes are combined into a story. [9] When interviewed about the shows by Western Washington University newspaper The Western Front, she explained that "People in America today are scared to speak up and tell their perspective on what our nation is or where it is going... I wanted to repeat the peoples' words verbatim so the audience could develop their own perspective." [2] Using a semi-autobiographical approach, Schneider links the quotes and stories together, saying "it’s really a love story about a petulant girl who starts out hating America for perpetuating hate. She begins collecting sounds and winds up falling in love with her country." The show won the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival award for "Best Solo Show".
Her ensuing solo show, Words of the Prophets, is composed partially of quotes from "homeless people all over the world." [1]
In 2008, Schneider wrote a play called "Sounds of Silence: A Documentary Puppet Musical Farce" about the 2004 United States election voting controversies in Ohio. [10]
When explaining about her dialect and musical interest she said; "You know how they talk about a photographic memory? That’s not actually how my mind works. It’s aural. I remember what I hear...when I try to do a piece onstage, I hear the next words [they actually said]. I hear the rest of the monologue. It takes every bit of strength and intellect that I have to control that." [10] In a 2013 interview, she explained that "to me, music, voice, voices of the people, play writing, dialect, language, violin – it all springs from the same well of fascination with sound." [1]
Schneider also provided voice acting on the popular animated comedy South Park . Alongside Mona Marshall, she replaced Mary Kay Bergman in many roles following her death by suicide. [6] In 2003, while Marshall continued to provide voices, Schneider left over the show's producers' refusal to extend her a union contract. [2] She was replaced by April Stewart in 2004. During this time, Schneider was part of Honey Pig, an all-female country music trio. [10]
Schneider and her partner, Roger Ray, have a son named Raiden Daniel. Schneider is working as a violin instructor for her son and other children. [1]
In 2012, Schneider joined the cast of Spider Baby the Musical for a San Diego performance, playing the role of Emily Howe. [11]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993–1995 | Beakman's World | Liza | |
| 1997 | Johnny Bravo | Lola (voice) | Episode: "Berry the Butler" [12] |
| 1999–2003 | South Park | Various characters (voice) | [2] |
| 2002 | The Zeta Project | Jenny (voice) | Episode: "The Wrong Morph" [12] |
| 2002 | Girlfriends | Tanya | Episode: "Sister, Sister" |
| 2003 | Invader Zim | Moofy (voice) | Episode: "The Girl Who Cried Gnome" [12] |
| 2007 | Squirrel Boy | Martha (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2009 | Popzilla | Various characters (voice) | [2] |
| 2011 | Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Paula von Gunther, Georgette Taylor (voice) | Episode: "The Scorn of the Star Sapphire!" [12] |
| 2015–2016 | Sanjay and Craig | Various voices | [12] |
| 2018 | Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Mrs. Cuddles (voice) | Episode: "Mrs. Cuddles" [12] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Foodfight! | Sweet Older Lady (voice) | [12] |
Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over eight decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for three Tony Awards. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s, Andrews has been honoured with the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her career to acting onstage and on-screen. In a career spanning over fifty years, Tomlin has received numerous accolades, including seven Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards. She was also awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2017.
Eliza Patricia Dushku is an American actress. She is best known for starring as Faith in the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1998–2003) and its spin-off series Angel (2000–2003). She also had lead roles in the Fox supernatural drama series Tru Calling (2003–2005) and the Fox science fiction series Dollhouse (2009–2010), for which she was a producer.
Beatrice "Bebe" Jane Neuwirth is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she has received two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Drama Desk Award.
Jodi Marie Benson is an American actress and singer. She is best known for providing the voice of Ariel in Disney's 1989 animated film The Little Mermaid and throughout other films, including its sequel, prequel, and television series spin-off, as well as many other Disney works. Benson also filled in for Paige O'Hara as the voice of Belle in House of Mouse and voiced the character Barbie in the second and third films of the Toy Story franchise (1999–2010), and in the Toy Story Toons short Hawaiian Vacation (2011). For her contributions to Disney, Benson was named a Disney Legend in 2011.
Adrienne Jo Barbeau is an American actress and author. She came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay on the sitcom Maude (1972–1978). In 1980, she began appearing in horror and science fiction films, including The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), Creepshow (1982), and Swamp Thing (1982). She also provided the voice of Catwoman in the DC Animated Universe. In the 2000s, she appeared on the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005) as Ruthie.
Mary Kay Bergman, also credited as Shannen Cassidy, was an American voice actress and voice-over teacher. She was the lead female voice actress on South Park from the show's debut in 1997 until her death. Throughout her career, Bergman performed voice work for over 400 television commercials and voiced over 100 cartoon, film, and video game characters.
Margaret Nixon McEathron, known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in musical films. She was the singing voice of leading actresses on the soundtracks of several musicals, including Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, although her roles were concealed from audiences when the films were released. Several of the songs she dubbed appeared on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs list.
Beakman's World is an American educational children's television program. The program is based on the Universal Press Syndicate syndicated comic strip You Can with Beakman and Jax created by Jok Church. The series premiered on Wednesday, September 16, 1992, on TLC, and three days later on September 19, began a concurrent run in weekly syndication on 220 television stations across the United States through an agreement with Columbia Pictures Television Distribution.
Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin is an American musician and singer, best known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of the new wave band The Go-Go's. She also voices Dusk, the drummer and backup vocalist of the fictional rock band The Hex Girls. She also had a successful solo career.
Lani Minella is an American voice actress, voice director, and producer mostly working in the games industry. She is also the founder and owner of the voice-acting agency AudioGodz.
The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys is a live action television series that aired for eleven episodes from September 19 to November 28, 1992. It focuses on three microscopic Sea-Monkeys — Dave, Bill and Aquarius — who have been enlarged to human size by their benefactor, the Professor. Special guests include Stephen Furst, Gilbert Gottfried, Larry Melman, and Vernon Wells.
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak English so well she could pass for a duchess in Edwardian London or better yet, from Eliza's viewpoint, secure employment in a flower shop.
Jim Piddock is an English actor, producer and writer who began his career on the stage in the United Kingdom before immigrating to the United States in 1981.
Mandy Stadtmiller is an author and columnist for New York magazine, former editor-at-large of xoJane, "Girl Talk" columnist for Penthouse and host of the comedy podcast "News Whore." She is also known for her dating column in the New York Post, called "About Last Night."
Jane Wing-Chi Lui is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Southern California.
Katrina Jane Garside is an English singer, songwriter, and visual artist. She is known for her variegated musical projects encompassing numerous genres such as noise rock, alternative metal, acoustic, and neofolk, and vocals that range from childlike whispers to harsh scream singing. The London Evening Standard once described her as "one of the scariest women in alternative music."
Heather Youmans is an American dancer and singer-songwriter known for her soundtrack work on the feature films, Moondance Alexander (2007), Flicka 2 (2010) and Marley & Me: The Puppy Years (2011). Youmans recently appeared on I Can See Your Voice episode 4 (FOX), other live performances include a UNICEF benefit opening solo ahead of headliners Sting and Natalie Cole in 2005, a National Anthem performance for the Los Angeles Kings on New Year's Eve 2019, and Parade magazine's, She Rocks Spotlight Series, in 2020. Her work has been featured in American Songwriter magazine, Forbes Women and Parade magazine profiled her career and music in 2020. Youmans holds an MBA and is publicist with Fender Guitars, she has written for the Los Angeles Times, and the Orange County Register.
Phillipa Anne Soo is an American actress and singer. Known for her leading roles on Broadway primarily in musicals, she has received two Grammy Awards along with nominations for a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
Bom-Bane's is a café and performance venue founded in 2006 by Jane Bom-Bane on George Street, Brighton, UK. It has singing staff and eccentric décor. In 2007, Bom-Bane's won the ThreeWeeks Editors award for the best venue in the Brighton Fringe Festival. In 2012, Bom-Bane's was featured on the Canadian reality television show, World's Weirdest Restaurants. In 2016, it was highlighted on BBC Radio 3's The Verb.
5:09 [I got to] "be the best friend of these three life size sea-monkeys..." 6:58 "They showed me a bunch of headshots and were like 'Pick your parents'. 7:15 "Luckily I got to do a audition for the replacement show which was Beakman's World. 13:42 "He brought me in his room, and locked the door behind me, and said 'I don't want South Park to go off the air. I know you can do those voices. Don't you have an agent?'" 14:23 "He forced me to call my agent at ICM, from his room. And so I called, if they need anybody I can do that.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
