"Schneider found her way into the minds of Webb's characters and it was a treat to hear her do it." AudioGals
About
Carol delivers "air quality" tracks from her "Upstate Manhattan" Studio, outfitted with Source Connect, an Audio Technica 4040 Mic, Grace PreAmp, Apollo Solo, & Dell XPS.
Aside from her narrating, Carol is a playwright, screenwriter and historical novelist.
Her full-length play, The Quiet Revolution of Laurent Clerc, premiers at The Park Theatre in London in summer of 2027, with the help of grants from Arts Council England, New England Foundation for the Arts, and The Wiener Family Foundation. Previously, it workshopped at The National Theatre in London,
Rod Jorge's documentary, From Page To Sign, about the rehearsal process of The Quiet Revolution... (formerly Clerc's Inferno) won first place in the New York Short Film Festival and the New Wave Short Film Festival and placed highly in numerous others.
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.
My Father Came From Italy, Maria Coletta McLean's memoir, so captivated Carol, as she narrated it, she adapted it into a screenplay. MFCFI is now in pre-production with iZEN with Michael Hagerty, José Fernández-Velasco, and Joe Cacaci producing. Tony Shalhoub and Alfred Molina are attached.
I'll Take The Usual, which she wrote and narrated, is featured in Blunderwoman Media's anthology, Nevertheless We Pursisted: 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.
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. She has recorded for such publishers as HarperCollins Canada, Tantor Media, Simon & Schuster Audio, Scholastic Audio, Scribd Audio, Bee Audio, Encyclopocalypse Audio, Alexander, and Adventurous Media.
Training: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts/Circle-In-the-Square Theatre School (Paulette Goddard Remarque Fellow); RADA Summer School alumn of Interlochen Arts Academy (Young Artists Award). Lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Dramatists Guild of America.