With the divergent stories, she adds, “I really feel we can calm down stereotypes, which are at the root of social unrest.” “Putting all their stories right next to each other, with their diverse and righteous points of view, made me to believe in them,” she says. Schneider, who now lives in Shadow Hills, says her one-woman show was a work in progress years ago and she hopes to finish and and perform it locally, using the dialects and stories she collected. I didn’t want them to be self-conscious.” She found that their dialects “came more clearly when they were telling more emotional stories. “I talked to people who were young, old, male, female, rich, poor, black, white and Native Americans.” She made stops occasionally along the way to ask people about themselves. I’m putting together real people talking.” The actress interviewed some 400 people in her cross-country treks. “All the other material available is someone else ‘doing’ the accents. She turned an intense study of dialects into a book and tape for performers. Schneider managed to incorporate her love of acting with her love of cultures. And those resulted in her one-woman show, “I’m Not Weird: American Perspectives,” which she describes as “inspired by the diverse and righteous points of view I encountered.” Her interest evolved into three trips in a self-converted ambulance across the country. “Then I decided I wanted to learn about other cultures,” says Schneider, who recently received a world and cultures degree from UCLA.
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