This is a family where, if you get straight As, nobody notices!” Milton’s son, my uncle Mickey, went to Harvard at age 16 and graduated as Valedictorian at age 18. In 1937, my grandfather Milton was part of what was called ‘The Harvard Jew Crew,’ seven Jews that also included Joe Viertel, the father of Tom and Jack. My mother’s generation is all Harvard lawyers. “Our extended family went to Israel several times – in a pink Mercedes tour bus. Schneider’s other brother became a doctor (whew! something for a Jewish mother to cherish!). “He’d pick me up at Chippewa daycare and teach me songs he learned at the Jewish Center camp.” So she spent her early years on a Chippewa (or Ojibwe) reservation in Bimidji, Minnesota, with her parents and her “sociopathic adopted Vietnamese brother, Yo Binh Jacob Schneider.
“My Dad taught at the Bug-O-Nay-Gee-Shig Native American high school. “Mom was an Indian Law Legal Aid attorney,” she continues. The location is ironic, since Schneider has voiced eight characters on the popular adult animated Comedy Central sitcom, “South Park.” She’s also played Liza on “Beakman’s World,” and has been seen or heard on Bravo’s “Arts & Minds,” “King of the Hill,” “Girlfriends” and in the films “What Women Want” and “Finding Nemo.” Her voice is used in a number of video games as well. “My Mom is your typical Jewish leftie lawyer,” says beautiful, whip-smart, humorous Eliza, as we sip specialty drinks in her favorite spot, Eclipse Chocolate in South Park.
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San Diegans will see how all those skills come together in “Freedom of Speech,” which is based in fact (on a series of wild American dialect-collecting road trips) and stems from hundreds of hours of verbatim transcripts of interviews with diverse people around the country. And I find that the various artistic pursuits tend to feed each other.” “But to me, music, voice, voices of the people, playwriting, dialect, language, violin – it all springs from the same well of fascination with sound.
“Sometimes, it feels like it was a mistake not to choose a single specialty,” says the “woman of a thousand voices,” who’s bringing her acclaimed solo show, “Freedom of Speech,” to Moxie Theatre (through 8/11).
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