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Her first solo play, 'Road Trip' won her a Drama-Logue Critic's Award for Outstanding Performance. In 1998 her solo play, 'USA 911' was critically acclaimed all the way from Madison Wisconsin to Kilkenny, Ireland, and won her inclusion in the California Arts Council's Touring Artist's Roster.

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She also recurred as a Russian on NBC's 'Spy TV,' and is known in over 60 countries as series regular 'Liza,' on CBS' 'Beakman's World.' Schneider is a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) sponsored playwright who has developed her plays, including 'Sounds of Silence: A Documentary Puppet Musical Farce about the 2004 Election in Ohio,' with dramaturges at the prestigious O'Neill Theater Center in New London, Connecticut, for the past two years. Eliza Jane Schneider was profiled on the International Bravo! Network's 'Arts & Minds' program, along with 'Sting.' For five years, she voiced eight different female characters for Comedy Central's hit animated series 'South Park.' She's created multiple dialect characters for MTV's series, '3 South', NBC's 'King of the Hill,' the Mel Gibson film, 'What Women Want,' and Pixar's smash feature, 'Finding Nemo.' On camera, Eliza Jane recurred on UPN's 'Girlfriends' as a white girl, surprisingly fluent in 'Ebonics'. 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. Eliza Jane Schneider, actress, songstress, oral historian, dialect researcher, and playwright, has been fascinated by sound all her life.

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