Author: Eliza Jane Schneider

Eliza Jane Schneider is an actor, singer and dialect coach. She has performed in films, television, and video games (South Park, Finding Nemo, Batman). Through her Eliza Doolittle Dialects school, she has been coaching actors for dialect roles in film and television since 1992. She works as a coach and voicematch expert in Hollywood, including with Oliver Stone, and worked 10 years with Robert Easton as coach, researcher, and amanuensis. She has taught accents and dialects at Trinity Rep, SAG-Aftra Conservatory, and The O’Neill Theater Center among others, and was an invited guest instructor in voice perception at the Voice Studies Graduate Seminar,​ UCLA, invited by Professor Nina Eidsheim. In the corporate world, she has presented on voice training and how voice matters, at conferences including the 2016 national conference of DRI, the national membership organization for civil defense attorneys. In her field research she has personally conducted thousands of interviews on six continents.