"Schneider found her way into the minds of Webb's characters and it was a treat to hear her do it." AudioGals
About
Carol Schneider is a professional actor, playwright, screenwriter, and an award winning audiobook narrator.
She delivers "air quality" tracks from her "Upstate Manhattan" Studio, outfitted with Source Connect, an Audio Technica 4040 Mic, Grace PreAmp, Apollo Solo, & Dell XPS.
Carol has acted on Broadway (Vivian Beaumont, Lincoln Center), Off Broadway (Mitzi Newhouse LCT, Ensemble Studio Theatre & Samuel Beckett) and in regional theatres. She has had principal roles in studio and independent films which have been to Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival and Slam Dance and has worked with such directors as Oliver Stone, Adrian Lyne and Kathryn Bigelow. Carol has recorded for such publishers as Tantor Media, Simon & Schuster Audio, Scholastic Audio, Scribd Audio, Bee Audio, Encyclopocalypse Audio, Alexander, and Adventurous Media.
Her essay, I'll Take The Usual, which she wrote and narrated, is featured in Blunderwoman Media's anthology, NEVERTHELESS WE PERSISTED: ME TOO which won the 2019 Voice Arts Award (SOVAS) for Best Narration of Biography, a 2020 Audiofile Earphones Award. It was a 2020 Audie Finalist.
At NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied at Circle-In-the-Square Theatre School, Carol was a Paulette Goddard Remarque Fellow. She trained at RADA summer school and is an alumni of Interlochen Arts Academy (Young Artists Award). She has taught acting extensively at the Actors Conservatory. She is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Carol's full-length play, CLERC'S INFERNO, was workshopped at The National Theatre in London, July 2023. It was produced by The DH Ensemble and Dreamatorium Theatre, and supported with grants by The National Theatre and Arts Council England.
The documentary, FROM PAGE TO SIGN, about the rehearsal process of CLERC'S INFERNO won first place in the New York Short Film Festival and the New Wave Short Film and placed highly in numerous other festivals.
Carol's short plays, ROCKETS UNDER THE HOUSE and OF CONCERN have been seen at Berkshire Playwrights Lab. See Carolschneider.net for more about her writing.