After learning to play guitar six years ago on a borrowed instrument, she now plays a black and orange sunburst Epiphone named Dolly Parton.Įliza is currently studying Art History at Florida State University and lives in downtown Tallahassee with her mom and three cats. Growing up in a musical household, she was exposed to her musical idols from an early age, including Kay Starr, Patsy Cline, Billy Holiday, Carole King, Dolly Parton, George Gershwin, Django Reinhardt, Alison Krauss, Lee Morse, Rhiannon Giddens, and Leon Redbone. Her love for jazz and Big Band music cannot be overlooked, and influences both her songwriting and her vocal style. She began writing her own songs in 2017, fusing traditional folk elements with the darkness and mystery of Southern Gothic storytelling. With Liza and the Wise Guys she has performed at the Florida Folk Festival in 20, as well as The Northside Stage, The Blue Tavern, Fifth and Thomas, Bird’s, Black Dog on the Square, and numerous private shows. In the performing arts, Eliza has been a singer since she was 12, first in musical theater and then in her three-piece folk band, Liza and the Wise Guys. 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. She sells online and participates in local craft fairs and artist marketplaces. Eliza Jane Schneider, actress, songstress, oral historian, dialect researcher, and playwright, has been fascinated by sound all her life. She works with acrylic gouache and watercolor, combining architectural details with flora and text, creating original paintings and greeting cards for all occasions. In addition to her photographic work, Eliza paints and designs for The Silk and Cotton Shop, which she owns and operates. She photographs digitally and on film, and draws on haute couture fashion photography from the 1940s and 1950s as well as traditional tin-type portrait styles from the 1860s and the composition of painted portraits from the 18th century. In the One Hundred Hats Project, The Interior Portrait Series, and a project entitled Portrait of a Woman, Eliza combines her love of vintage clothing, historic costuming, and interior design with self-portrait photography, creating images influenced by the work of Wes Anderson, Louise Dahl Wolfe, and Irving Penn.
Her commercial photography was published in Flamingo Magazine’s inaugural issue in 2015, and she continues to photograph locally. During her time at Tallahassee Community College, she had her photographs publish in their literary magazine, the EYRIE as well as in the annual student exhibition in 2012 through 2015. She has had her photography featured in COCA’s 30 Under 30 exhibit in 2015, as well as in COCA’s annual juried art exhibit, Creative Tallahassee, at the Tallahassee Airport in 20. Eliza was the featured artist at Southern Exposure Gallery in Railroad Square in 2016, where she displayed photographs from two of her ongoing series. She won Best Solo Show at the NYC International Fringe Festival, and is also a world-class fiddler.Eliza Schneider-Green, born in 1995, is a photographer, singer-songwriter, and painter hailing from Tallahassee, Florida. The proud founder of Competitive Edge Voice Training and the Character Acting Academy, in Pygmalion fashion, Eliza has created a curriculum including the collective wisdom of her favorite working mentors, colleagues, coaches, professors, directors, casting directors and voice stars, to level the playing field and give every voice a chance to soar.Ī woman of many talents, Eliza got her on-camera start as “Liza” in Beakman’s World. An activist and proud advocate for underserved communities, she is committed to preserving these dialects and allowing all unsung voices to be heard. For her extensive Dialect Database, she traveled six continents, recording thousands of people speaking English in their native dialects. As a coach, she has helped perfect the accents and dialects of countless colleagues, from beginners, to Oscar winners, to the casts of Overwatch, Mafia 3 and Resident Evil, among many others.Īn avid researcher, Eliza has dedicated her life to the study of voice and dialects.
Renowned for voicing the female population of Comedy Central’s South Park, Eliza has an extensive list of credits in some of the most popular animations and video games. Eliza Jane Schneider is a veteran actor and dialect coach, whose clients include celebrities, politicians, A-list directors, AAA game companies and major studios, such as Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, Paramount, Fox, Dreamworks, Hulu, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Comedy Central.