
TV BEAKMAN ELIZA SCHNEIDER SERIES
She also recurred as a Russian on NBC's Spy TV (2001), and is known in over 60 countries as series regular Liza, on CBS' Beakman's World (1992). On camera, she recurred on UPN's Girlfriends (2000) as a white girl, surprisingly fluent in "Ebonics". She's created multiple dialect characters for MTV's series, 3-South (2002), NBC's King of the Hill (1997), the Mel Gibson film, What Women Want (2000), and Pixar's smash feature, Finding Nemo (2003). She was profiled on the International Bravo! Network's "Arts & Minds" program, along with Sting.įor five years, she voiced eight different female characters for Comedy Central's hit animated series South Park (1997). The Washington Center for the Performing Arts and CitiStage/Symphony Hall in Springfield Massachusetts booked the popular show for their 2004-2005 seasons. 122 in the Spring of 2004, ending up at The Public Theater in the fall of 2005. "Freedom Of Speech" premiered in the summer of 2003 at the New York International Fringe Festival to rave reviews and won the "Best Solo Show" award. By age twelve, she had gotten her Equity card playing an English role in "A Christmas Carol" and an American Southern role in "Inherit the Wind." She has traversed America ten times recording dialects, and distilled the enormous amount of information she accumulated into her critically acclaimed one-woman show, "Freedom Of Speech," in which she recreates 34 different dialect characters from all around the country. She was raised on a Chippewa reservation by a German drama teacher/playwright and a Jewish legal aid attorney. She now sings, plays, and writes music for television and radio recording artists, and plays 11 instruments. At age 7, she was recognized as a violin virtuoso, studying the Suzuki ear-training method at the Eastman School of Music, where she also studied classical voice. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Įliza Jane Schneider, actress, songstress, oral historian, dialect researcher, and playwright, has been fascinated by sound all her life. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more.

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