

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. In 2007, Schneider wrote a play called "Sounds of Silence: A Documentary Puppet Musical Farce" about the 2004 United States election voting controversies in Ohio. Her ensuing solo show, Words of the Prophets, is composed partially of quotes from "homeless people all over the world." 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". I wanted to repeat the peoples' words verbatim so the audience could develop their own perspective." 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. 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.

The various quotes are combined into a story. 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. Dialect research and stage showsįor her college senior thesis, Schneider made a cross-country road tour in a former ambulance studying regional dialects. After the show got canceled, she replaced Alanna Ubach for the second and third seasons of Beakman's World. For the show she was allowed to cast the actors who played her parents.
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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.
